The story I heard as a young boy was from my Grandfather Donald Munro the Publican of the Plough Inn, Inverness, Scotland. He knew the recorder of the song a Donald Dallas who was a teacher at the Inverness Academy. The song is a parody on the church 'Presenter' who job it was to sing the first line of the the 'Psalms' to the semi-literate congregation. The version I knew and used to sing as a party piece is:

There was a man who had the twa sons
And these twa sons were brothers
Josepheus was the name of the one
And Banquius the name of the other
Now Josepheus was a weekid man
We'll ner see hem no more
He stole his Faither's coffin lid
To mak a hen-house door
Now these twa brothers bought a coat
They bought it on the Monday
Josepheus wore it through the week
And Banquius on the Sunday
Now it happened in the course of tiam
That these twa brothers diyed
They burried Josepheus on his back
And Banquius on his siade