Mr Garfield

<p>[Verse]<br/>Mr. Garfield been shot down shot down shot down Mr. Garfield been shot down low<br/>Me and my brother was down close to the depot when I heard the report of a pistol<br/>My brother run out and come back in all excited<br/>And I said what was it and he said it was the report of a pistol and then he said<br/>Mr. Garfield been shot down shot down shot down Mr. Garfield been shot down low<br/>Lord I knew the President was supposed to be at the depot that day<br/>And we just would&#x27;t believe that he&#x27;s shot<br/>But we&#x27;d run over there and there was so many folks around<br/>That we couldn&#x27;t see him but some lady was standin&#x27; there crying<br/>And I said m&#x27;am what was it that happened m&#x27;am and she said<br/>Mr. Garfield been shot down shot down shot down Mr. Garfield been shot down low<br/>Well everybody drifted off toward home finally<br/>And they looked like they felt about as bad as I did<br/>But in a few weeks I heard that the President was still alive<br/>And I told my brother I said let&#x27;s get on that train and go to where he&#x27;s laid up hurt<br/>Well when we got to his big house up there I asked the fellow<br/>I said who was it that did it who was it that shoot the President<br/>And he said it was Charlie Guiteau that shoot Mr. Garfield and I said<br/>Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man good man<br/>Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man low<br/>I heard some fellow there that had been in the house to see the President<br/>And I sidled up him to listen to what he was telling and he said<br/>Mrs Lucretia Garfield was always at his side<br/>In the heat of the day fanning him when he was hot<br/>He said that just that day the President said to Mrs Lucretia<br/>He said Crete honey (he called her Crete)<br/>Said if somethin&#x27; worse happens to me after awhile you get yourself a good man<br/>And Mrs Lucretia said James (she called him James)<br/>She said I won&#x27;t hear to that now she said I love you too much but he said<br/>You&#x27;ll make some good man a good wife good wife<br/>You&#x27;ll make some man a good good good wife<br/>(Don&#x27;t pull in single harness all your life good gal<br/>Don&#x27;t pull in single harness all your life)<br/>That&#x27;s what he said don&#x27;t pull in single harness all your life<br/>Well a few days later I come back to where the President was resting<br/>And it seems everybody was crying<br/>The flag was hanging halfway up to the flagpole in front of the house<br/>And everybody looked so sad and I asked a soldier boy there<br/>And I said is is is Mr. Garfield and he said yeah he&#x27;s gone<br/>Going to lay him in that cold lonesome ground down low<br/>Going to lay him in that cold lonesome ground<br/>Well they laid the President by that long cold branch Mr. Garfield&#x27;s been laid down low<br/>Mr. Garfield has been shot dow Mr. Garfield&#x27;s been shot<br/>(Mr. Garfield been shot down shot down shot down Mr. Garfield been shot down low)