Jessee James I was sung by these two better known western singers:
Jules Verne Allen, in "Cowboy Lore, 1935, pp. 76-79, with music.
Margaret Larkin, 1931, 1963, "Singing Cowboy, pp. 154-157, with music and rudimentary chords. According to her, Ford shot Jesse through an uncurtained window. Some verses differ from the standard.
The 555 Fake Song Book has the parody version by Shane, Reynolds and Stewart, in which
"When his best friend died, he was right there by her side,
And he lifted off her golden wedding ring."
(Posted somewhere in Mudcat by a scalawag)

Strangely, not in Sing Out's "Rise Up Singing."