Kitty Middleton
Kitty Middleton just seventeen
Learned to walk on an airplane wing
Far above the crowds below
Kitty Middleton put on quite a show
Youngest child of a baker’s dozen
Met the pilot through her cousin
Said he was lookin’ for a new girl
To walk the wing way above the world
It was the 1950s and times were tough
In her large family there was never enough
After the barnstormer’s show one day
Kitty Middleton flew away
The endless blue
The brilliant green
And Kitty Middleton in between
With her arms outstretched up to the sky
And just like an angel she can fly
They flew all across the great Midwest
Town after town no time to rest
Outside loop and a barrel roll
The world too small to contain her soul
End of summer Minnesota State Fair
A crowd of thousands stopped to stare
When the pilot couldn’t pull out of a dive
Neither he nor Kitty came out alive
The newspapermen reported the crash
The horrible sound and the explosive flash
How the girl on the wing in perfect style
Never dropped her arms or her blinding smile
The endless blue
The brilliant green
And Kitty Middleton in between
With her arms outstretched up to the sky
And just like an angel she can fly
Kitty Middleton just seventeen
Learned to walk on an airplane wing
Far above the crowds below
Kitty Middleton put on quite a show
Youngest child of a baker’s dozen
Met the pilot through her cousin
Said he was lookin’ for a new girl
To walk the wing way above the world
It was the 1950s and times were tough
In her large family there was never enough
After the barnstormer’s show one day
Kitty Middleton flew away
The endless blue
The brilliant green
And Kitty Middleton in between
With her arms outstretched up to the sky
And just like an angel she can fly
They flew all across the great Midwest
Town after town no time to rest
Outside loop and a barrel roll
The world too small to contain her soul
End of summer Minnesota State Fair
A crowd of thousands stopped to stare
When the pilot couldn’t pull out of a dive
Neither he nor Kitty came out alive
The newspapermen reported the crash
The horrible sound and the explosive flash
How the girl on the wing in perfect style
Never dropped her arms or her blinding smile
The endless blue
The brilliant green
And Kitty Middleton in between
With her arms outstretched up to the sky
And just like an angel she can fly
Tim Brown © 2008
Kitty Middleton 1951