been racking my brains a bit all I can remember is like you say the first line was
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Wigan might have got to Wembley
but for Mickey's try
and the next two lines were
He scored it in the corner
The best try of his life

after that I don't know. two many years of supping common has taken it's toll and the mind's gone blank sorry

Peawaap , i dont think Tom Dooley played for Wigan



wasnt he a Cowboy in an Elvis film ?I dont think Elvis ever played for Wigan , his Suede shoes were BLUE .

This is very true Chas for Tom Dooley read Joe Egan Tetley's mild has made an indentation on my memory over the years apologies for that, as for Elvis I saw him in Asda on Wednesday perusing the wine and spirits aisle

Sorry to go on about this but....

If it refers to the 1959 semi-final then I was all of 7 years old at the time, so it obviously made a massive impression on a young Leyther to be still in my yed 54 years later.

Is there really only me, peawapp and Frank who remember it?

So here's my final appeal for information - I'd dearly love to know:

(1) Any more words?
(2) Who wrote it?
(3) Why was it written? It's a fictional account featuring a fictional result, a fictional match-winning try and a fictional big-hit but it refers to a real match where none of these things happened!!
(4) Why would a newspaper publish it? Or did they also publish a similar effort featuring fictional events but written from a Wigan point of view?

Remember the song, think it was written in the build up to the game, couldnt get to the semi, the A team played at the same time, so went to watch the A team as they said they would be giving scores out during the game, it poured down all afternoon, first report was that Leigh had scored then changed to the humbles.