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.
514
( lips closed ) (open)
Zolgotz, man,
He shot Mc kinley with
han kie
his
hand —
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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.