Frank Hamilton, Frank Profitt got no royalties until the Kingston Trio's big sales were well over. Frank made a comment at the time, "Well, looks like I'll be getting a good share of nothing!" Also, during the lawsuit (which was practically done FOR him by others- I think Lomax suggest it, and helped with it-, would have to look that up), extensive research was done and the song- recorded by the Folksay Trio and published by Dick and Beth Best, was traced to the version sung by Frank Profitt and his family. He did not claim that he wrote it, just that it was the way his family sang it that way. I write this only because your statement above sounded so authoritative, and I knew that this particular fact in your statement was not true.