The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4772   Message #871552
Posted By: Genie
21-Jan-03 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Duncan and Brady
Subject: RE: Duncan and Brady
Amos, the version you posted is close (but no cigar) to the one I learned in about 1963. IIRC it was done by Dave Guard and the Whiskey Hill Singers (but I may be thinking of a similar song in that regard). It had a verse like:

When the women all heard that Brady was dead,
They went on home and they re-ragged in red ...

Genie