Looking Like My Brother

DESCRIPTION: Singer's twin brother John always causes trouble for which the singer is blamed, beaten, and jailed. John dies. On the way to the burial John's body, unseen, falls out of the casket. Singer is told to behave while he is nailed in the casket and buried.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MUNFLA-Leach)
KEYWORDS: crime prison punishment burial corpse death drink humorous brother
FOUND IN: US(So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Everette Conklin, "Brother John," Max Hunter Folk Song Collection, Cat #0580 (MFH #66), accessed 9 August 2018 from https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=580. (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #17934
RECORDINGS:
Tom Finlay, "Twins" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
Cyril O'Brien, "The Twins" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fellow that Looks Like Me" [Laws H21] (theme of a man who gets in trouble for his double's acts)
File: ML3LLMBr

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