Kathy's Song - Simon & Garfunkel (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Kathy's Song (Simon & Garfunkel, 1965). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-05-02. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Kathy's Song," written by Paul Simon, is found on both Paul Simon's first solo album "The Paul Simon Songbook" (1965) and Simon & Garfunkel's second album "Sounds of Silence" (1966) (Whitburn, 2006). The song was written for/about Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Chitty who was Paul Simon's muse and girlfriend, whom he met in England "on 12 April 1964 at the very first English folk club he played, the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex, where Chitty was working part-time selling tickets. She was 17, he was 22" (wikibin.org, 2022). It is she who is pictured on Simon's ". . . Songbook" album cover. Kathy is also mentioned in Simon's penned song "America;" "'Kathy,' I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh."

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Lyrics:

I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls

And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England where my heart lies

My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're asleep
And kiss you when you start your day

And a song I was writing is left undone
I don't know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can't believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme

And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you

And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I