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"She caught the katy
Posted by DogFacedBoy on 24 December 2011 - 5:21pm.
and left me a mule to ride......."
Y'know I must have first seen the Blues Brothers about 20 years ago with their version of the tune and it wasn't until today that I knew what the hell the "katy" is. I'd guessed it was something to do with trains.
The same phrase is in Gillian Welch's 'Revelator' so I looked it up and it refers to the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, The MKT or "the K-T",
Anyone have phrases in songs they didn't understand for years or still don't?
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