The Traditional Ballads Index gave Thomas S. Allen(?), but no supporting data. Sandburg has a few verses, no author cited.

In the play, "The Grip," by Harrigan (Harrigan & Hart) is a song by David Braham called "Oh! Dat Low Bridge!", but it is not the same song (See sheet music, 1885, at American Memory).

I cannot find any information on William S. Allen, according to Lomax and Lomax, the author of "Low Bridge, Everybody Down or Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal," F. B. Haviland Publishing Co., New York City, "reprinted by special permission of the copyright owners." - Lomax and Lomax, ABFS, p. 467ff.

Can anyone find reference other than Lomax to W. S. Allen and the song "Low bridge ...."?