The Keenan and Sayers song is the one I referred to in my post as:
A NEW SONG CALL'D COBURN'S CHALLENGE TO HEENAN

Thanks for all the references and lyrics.. they're great. Lots to go on.

I suppose I should have mentioned:

'Black Superman' - a song about Muhammad Ali that hit the US Top 40 shrotly after The Rumble In The Jungle.

It seems to me that there were MORE songs that just Black Superman and the chant that went round about The Runble In The Jungle. I would like to name the one historical fight that has yielded the most songs but Ray Mancini vs Duk Koo Kim is still in th lead with 5 at present.

They don't have to be Trad/folk but in a way, almost all the songs I've enounctered fall roughly into that category because of the purpose they serve.

It's awfully hard to beat Warron Zevon's 'Boom Boom Mancini' in terms of effect. The song sounds almost as brutal as the fight it describes. Only one verse is about Duk Koo Kim but that's the line everyone recalls.

BOOM BOOM MANCINI
by Warren Zevon

Chorus
Hurry home early
Hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early
Hurray on home
Boom Boom Mancinci's fighting Bobby Chacon

From Youngstown, Ohio
Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini
A Lightweitgh contender
like father like son
He fought for the title
with Frias in Vegas
and he put him away
in round number one

repeat Chorus

When Alexis Arguello
gave Boom Boom a beating
seven weeks later
he was back in the ring
some have the speed
and the right combinations
if you can't take the punches
it don't mean a thing

repeat Chorus

Bridge..

When they asked him who was responsible
for the death of Du Koo Kim (some people spell it Duk Koo Kim)
He said
"Someone shoulda stopped the fight,
and told me it was HIM!"


They made hypocrite judgements
after the fact
but the name of the game
is be hit and hit back

Repeat Chorus

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