Lyrics to
Daylight Katy

This version of Daylight Katy was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1978.

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She walks by the sea where the seaworld is
And she waits for the man to come
She lives in town with her high-heeled friends
And she knows it’s a long way down
But she doesn’t have to get up in the morning
With her hair so soft and long

Daylight Katy come on
Daylight Katy come on
If you can’t follow me down
Daylight Katy go home

Daylight Katy come on
Daylight Katy come on
If you can’t follow me down
Daylight Katy go home

She walks to the sea where the seaweed is
Where the rust in the dirt runs deep
She lives nine lives in her midnight world
While her old man’s fast asleep
And she doesn’t have to get up in the mornin’
With her hair so soft and long

Daylight Katy come on
Daylight Katy come on
If you can’t follow me down
Daylight Katy go home

Daylight Katy come on
Daylight Katy come on
If you can’t follow me down
Daylight Katy go home

She lives by the sea when the summer wind comes
And the sea don’t mind at all
She talks to the sea when the sea runs wild
And the waves run steep and tall
And she doesn’t have to get up in the mornin’
With her hair so soft and long

Daylight Katy come on
Daylight Katy come on
If you can’t follow me down
Daylight Katy go home

Daylight Katy come on
Daylight Katy come on
If you can’t follow me down
Daylight Katy go home

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About Lyrics and Daylight Katy by Gordon Lightfoot

The lyrics to Daylight Katy are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Gordon Lightfoot used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Daylight Katy have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Gordon Lightfoot and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Daylight Katy by Gordon Lightfoot. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Daylight Katy" means the words set to the music of Daylight Katy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gordon Lightfoot. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Daylight Katy and the lyrics to Daylight Katy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gordon Lightfoot who came here looking just for the lyrics to Daylight Katy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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