Looking in the DT at Red Wing #3, I noticed that the version there is essentially the one recorded by Oscar Brand except it is missing a whole verse and chorus. Here it is.

...shortened his love life.
CHO: Oh the moon shines down on pretty Red Wing,
As she lays snoring,
Her knife adoring
For no longer do the braves come whoring
They won't pay the price for the promised land

O girls if you wanna be wise
Put away those knives
Boys like to pay
For a fling in the hay
But they don't wanna pay for the rest of their lives
Mind what your mamma said
If you're lying in your bed
If you can't obey
Don't reach for a blade
Have a hell of a time instead.

Last chorus as in Red Wing 3

cheers
rich r

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 6-Jun-02.