Released: October 6, 2008
Songwriter: Traditional
Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, little star
Up comes Brady in a 'lectric car
Got a mean look all 'round his eye
Gonna shoot somebody jus' to see them die
Duncan, Duncan was tending the bar
In walked Brady with a shining star
And Brady says, "Duncan you are under arrest"
And Duncan shot a hole in Brady's breast
Brady, Brady carried a .45
Said it would shoot half a mile
Duncan had a .44
That what laid Mr. Brady so low
Brady fell down on the barroom floor
"Please Mr. Duncan don' shoot me no more"
Women all cryin', ain't it a shame
Shot King Brady, goin' shoot him again
"Brady, Brady, Brady, you know you done wrong
Walkin' in the room when the game was goin' on
Knockin' down windows, breakin' down the door
Now you lyin' dead on the grocery [barroom] floor
Women all heard that Brady was dead
Goes back home and they dresses in red
Come a sniffin' and a sighin' down the street
In their big mother hubbards and their stockin' feet
'Cause he been on the job too long
Up comes Brady in a 'lectric car
Got a mean look all 'round his eye
Gonna shoot somebody jus' to see them die
Duncan, Duncan was tending the bar
In walked Brady with a shining star
And Brady says, "Duncan you are under arrest"
And Duncan shot a hole in Brady's breast
Brady, Brady carried a .45
Said it would shoot half a mile
Duncan had a .44
That what laid Mr. Brady so low
Brady fell down on the barroom floor
"Please Mr. Duncan don' shoot me no more"
Women all cryin', ain't it a shame
Shot King Brady, goin' shoot him again
"Brady, Brady, Brady, you know you done wrong
Walkin' in the room when the game was goin' on
Knockin' down windows, breakin' down the door
Now you lyin' dead on the grocery [barroom] floor
Women all heard that Brady was dead
Goes back home and they dresses in red
Come a sniffin' and a sighin' down the street
In their big mother hubbards and their stockin' feet
'Cause he been on the job too long
more tracks from the album
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006
- Mississippi
- The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore (live)
- Mary and the Soldier
- Miss the Mississippi
- High Water (For Charley Patton)
- Mississippi (Alternate Version #3)
- Can’t Escape from You
- ’Cross the Green Mountain
- Duncan and Brady
- Cocaine Blues
- 32-20 Blues
- Can’t Wait (Alternate version #2)
- Marchin’ to the City (Unreleased version #2)
- Born in Time (Unreleased version #2)
- Red River Shore (Unreleased version #2)
- Most of the Time (Alternate version)
- Dignity (Piano Demo)
- Tell Ol’ Bill (Alternate Version, North Country Soundtrack)
- The Lonesome River
- Marchin’ to the City
- Mississippi (version #2)
- Love Sick
- Series of Dreams
- God Knows
- Born in Time
- Most of the Time
- Ring Them Bells
- Everything Is Broken
- Dignity
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
- Cold Irons Bound
- Red River Shore
- Huck’s Tune
- Dreamin’ of You
- Ain’t Talkin’
- Someday Baby
- Things Have Changed
- Lonesome Day Blues
- Can’t Wait
- Mississippi (Outtake)
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- Blowin’ in the Wind
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- All Along the Watchtower
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Make You Feel My Love
- Hurricane
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Desolation Row
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Masters of War
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- Girl from the North Country
- Tempest
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Visions of Johanna
- I Contain Multitudes
- To Fall in Love with You
- Shelter from the Storm