Hear another version at Honkingduck by Homer Brierhopper.

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MR. MCKINLEY
As sung by Homer Brierhopper

Well Mr. McKinley,
Why didn't you run?
Saw a man a-comin' with a smokin' forty-one
In Buffalo, in Buffalo.

Send for the doctor,
The doctor he come.
He come in a walk, and he come in a run
In Buffalo, in Buffalo

(instr. break 2 verses long)

"Doctor, oh Doctor,
Do all you can!
A man shot my husband with a handkerchief over his hand
In Buffalo, in Buffalo."

He looked at McKinley,
Looked through his specs,
Told Mr. McKinley, he'd cashed in his checks.
In Buffalo, in Buffalo.

(instr. break 2 verses long)

Rubber tired buggy,
(unclear-- Douglas?) City hack,
Carried him to the graveyard but 't won't bring him back
In Buffalo, in Buffalo.

There's Mrs. McKinley in Brooklyn,
All dressed all in red,
A-weeping and a-mourning for her man was dead
In Buffalo, in Buffalo.

(instr. break 2 verses long)

Jury says to Czolgotz,
"Whattaya doin' here?"
Says, "I shot McKinley, gonna die in the 'lectric chair."
In Buffalo, in Buffalo.

Czolgotz told the jury,
"Treat me like a man,
I've got to die, and I'm a-going to Dixieland."
In Buffalo, in Buffalo.

(instr. break 2 verses long-- Honkingduck recording cuts out here)


SOURCE:
Honkingduck by http://honkingduck.com/BAZ/baz_side.php?meth=t&letter=m&title=Mr.%2520Mckinley&cuid=20237A>Homer Brierhopper.

Decca 5588, September 1938, Side A. Title: Mr. Mckinley
Artist: Homer Brierhopper

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