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Mike1951 wrote:

gregthehand wrote:You just fill his head with cannon balls and and powder his behind

I guess with the compact model, you use buckshot.

If that's Greg in the picture, I was just thinking how young some of these children are and then he remembers Johnny Horton!

I'm just 45, but I know James Corbitt Morris wrote the song to help his history class remember the details.

Somewhere I have a cassette with the Driftwood version. That's as "folk" as folk music can get.

Two articles, one from Houston and the other from UK. The latter has pictures; the former has better comments (my favorite was the wag who looked at the mugshot and said, "He had hair clippers?").

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1811

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hea ... 03545.html