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Thread #4772   Message #965169
Posted By: GUEST,Dave Hollowood
10-Jun-03 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Duncan and Brady
Subject: RE: Duncan and Brady
Glad somebody else has heard the Brothers Four version. Heard it when I was just a young'n.

Intro verse was:

King Brady was a crooked Policeman,
One day he got shot,
Most people say,
He deserved what he got...

Oh Duncan, Duncan was tending the bar
When in walked Brady with his shiny star
Duncan! (Yes?) Duncan! You're under arrest!
Duncan shot a hole in Brady's chest!

Oh Brady, Brady, Brady
Don't you know you done wrong
Come'n in to my baroom when the game was on
You sprung my lock
And you broke my door
Now you're lying dead on the baroom floor!

There were a couple of other verses, notably the "women runing home and dressing in red.

But the one verse that seems to be missing from other versions is:

Momma, Momma, I can hear a strange sound
There's a bumpin and a thumpin coming up from the ground
Well son, oh son, don't you have any fear
That's the devil and he's yellin' I Got Brady Down Here!