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An 19th-century American song that I learnt from Fergus Feely a number of years ago in Galway. I seem to recall that Fergus learnt it in San Francisco.
For a tragi-comical take on Americans and guns, see Jim Jefferies' sketch:
http://deadstate.org/this-australian-comedians-take-on-americas-hypocritical-gun-laws-is-perfect/

It recounts some of the events in the spectacular assassination of the American president, Abraham Lincoln, after the American civil war.