Kinney Rorrer, Poole's biographer, seems to suggest Walter Smith's earlier recording may have been Poole's source. Smith was a friend of Poole's. Smith's recording has more or less the same lyrics as Poole's first 3 stanzas, plus the familiar chorus as in the DT. Smith's final stanza is the same as that in the second version in the DT - 'Young fellows all take my advice' etc. I wonder where the first four lines of Poole's final stanza came from: maybe he wrote them. Has anyone heard the Reneau recording? There were also earlier unissued recordings by Bill Chitwood (1927) and Blevins & Blair (1928). The Poole lyrics may be found here: CLICK. In that transcription, the third line of the final stanza should read 'load up your gun'.

--Stewie.