Leon Czolgosz (executed 10/29/1901) shoots President McKinley on 9/6/1901 (McKinley: b.1/29/1843, d.9/14/1901)
2-"Zolgotz, Zolgotz, you done him wrong
Shot po' MacKinley when he was walking along
In Buffalo, in Buffalo.
13-Roosevelt in the White House, drinkin' out a silver cup,
MacKinley in the graveyard, he'll never wake up,
He's gone a long old time.
"Mister MacKinley," Lomax, Folk Songs of North America & Library of Congress,
Songs and Ballads of American History and of the Assassination of Presidents
ALSO: "White House Blues" sung by Charlie Poole on the Anthology, vol. one.
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