Cathy Met Charlie

 

"I've met a lovely boy named Charlie, some people call him Chas
Brown curly hair and ever so strong, he lives on the opposite stairs""


Vocals  
Richard Rhys O'Brien

Guitar 
Bruce Knapp

Lyrics

Cathy Met Charlie 

Cathy
I’ve met a lovely boy called Charlie  //  Some people call him Chas
Brown curly hair and ever so strong  //  he lives on the opposite stairs

Ellen, Cathy's mother 
So you’ve met a lovely boy called Charlie  //  I think I know who you mean
So be a good girl and watch yourself  //  you’re still only seventeen

Cathy
One day we want to get married  //  but we don’t know where we will live
Every day there’s less and less room  //  we’ve only got love to give

Ellen
Well you know what we’ve always told you  //  don’t get in the family way
You can still love this boy called Charlie  //  leave the rest for another day

Narrator
Now Charlie and Cathy got married  //  in the church on Saffron Hill
Now with the good Lord’s blessing  //  love can be fulfilled
But it was a cold October day  //  when their little boy was born
He struggled for life for less than a week  //  and all they can do is mourn

Cathy’s father
They wrote he died of exhaustion  //  you can imagine what that might mean
In a crowded room who can live  //  Did he even manage a scream

Cathy and Charlie
We named him after his grandpa  //  who’d brought us all over from Cork
Baptised in the name of the Father  //  a life so terribly short

©Richard Rhys O’Brien July 2015