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Thread #84407   Message #1557408
Posted By: Abby Sale
06-Sep-05 - 08:42 AM
Thread Name: happy? - Sept 6 (Czolgosz shoots)
Subject: happy? - Sept 6 (Czolgosz shoots)
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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