Mudcat Café message #1514131

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Thread #82632 Message #1514131
Posted By: Abby Sale
02-Jul-05 - 08:36 AM
Thread Name: happy? - July 2 (Guiteau shot Garfield)
Subject: happy? - July 2

Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield on 7/2/1881 (Garfield died 9/19).


          O, they tell me Mr Garfield been shot down, shot down,
          He's feeling mighty low;
          They tell me Mr Garfield been shot.
  
                  "Mr Garfield," BL Lunsford on Library of Congress recording, Songs and
                   Ballads of American History and of the Assassination of Presidents, 1952
                   and also Art Thieme, On the Wilderness Trail, Folk-Legacy, 1986