337. Zolgotz


337. ZOLGOTZ
'Zolgotz.' Sung by Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Recorded at Turkey Creek, Bun-
combe county, no date given. Resung for the present editor at Chapel Hill in
1952. Also known as 'Death of McKinley' and 'The White House Blues.' Cf.
OSC 256-7 and JAFL 1950, vol. 63, 276. Also CLRS 11 456.

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( lips closed ) (open)

 

Zolgotz,  man,

 

He shot Mc kinley with

 

han kie

 

his

 

hand —

 

^=^=j=^-^^^^

 

 

 

In Buf - fa - lo,-

 

in Buf - fa - lo.

 

Scale: Mode HI, plagal. Tonal Center: f. Structure: aa^bc (2,2,4,4).

2 Pistol fired, McKinley falls,

Sent for the doctor, doctor come.
Come in a trot, come in a run.
Come to Buffalo.

 

3 Saddled his horse, swung on his mane,
And he trotted his horse

'Til he outrun the train.
To Buffalo, to Bufifalo.

4 Forty-four boxes trimmed in braid,
Sixteen wheeldriver

That couldn't make the grade,
To Buffalo, to Buffalo.

5 McKinley in his tomb,
Roosevelt in the White House
A-eatin' with the (a) coon
From Buffalo, from Buffalo.