Putrid Kate Lyrics

Well Putrid Kate had a sorry time in Nantasket

She had eight kids while her Henry was at state

On the ninth one she collapsed into a basket

Once here, there goes Putrid Kate

Once here, there goes Putrid Kate

She lived to praise the glorious hereafter

Her present was the bane of all her days

Her renaissance was carved in alabaster

Once here, there goes Putrid Kate

Once here, there goes Putrid Kate

A marshal from Manhattan had been a suitor

As had been a baker and a waif

And she settled on someone who didn't suit her

Once here, there goes Putrid Kate

Once here, there goes Putrid Kate

She worried him a riot act in sutures

He cried out and reached for the cake

Some kind of unclean presence would pollute her

Once here, there goes Putrid Kate

Once here, there goes Putrid Kate

Beneath this mound of cherry stones she is hidden

Clutching a pair of shears so long and straight

They'll flash and fly the day that she is risen

Once there, here goes Putrid Kate

Once there, here goes Putrid Kate