Pretty Kitty

(Marais and Miranda, "Folk Song Jamboree"
Probably one of Josef Marais' translations from Africaans)

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Out in the wide world, Kitty, 
(Out in the wide world) 
Pretty Kitty. 
(Pretty Kitty)
Out in the wide world, Kitty, 
(Out in the wide world)
Far across the sea. 
(Far across the sea.)

My Kitty sailed away from me, 
To strange and distant lands, 
And when I asked a good-bye kiss, 
She said: "Oh, no, shake hands." 

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(When Kitty left, she said she'd write. 
He promised her the same, 
But  his address, somehow, got lost, 
And she forgot his name.)

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BOTH HUM (1 STANZA) 

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