Code of the Mountains

DESCRIPTION: "The code of the mountains way down in the backwoods... the unwritten law. There Harry and Joe Brown way down in the backwoods... shot Charlie McGraw." They find McGraw; he pleads for mercy; the shoot and bury him, because that's the code
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Roberts/Agey-InThePine)
KEYWORDS: crime death punishment execution | vigilante
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Roberts/Agey-InThePine 75, "Code of the Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [38 words]: Nowhere does this song specify that McGraw's crime was. It is not clear to me whether this is a feud song, or if McGraw dishonored a Brown woman, or if he did something else. I wish we had other texts so we could find out. - RBW
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File: RAInPi75

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