I understand most of the works in Leadbelly's "When I Was a Cowboy", but I can't make out the following:

xxxxxxx were you ever on the western plains (repeated)// when me and a bunch of cowboys ran into Jessie James.

The xxxxxxx sounds like Odi, Hart, and Spanner. Hart was a western movie hero of the time. I wonder if he is addressing three cowboy heros.

Thanks for any info.

By the way: I couldn't find the song in the database.

Murray