If you are interested in the provenance of this song you could look at the book "Songsters & Saints - vocal traditions in race records" by Paul Oliver published Cambridge University Press (UK)1984 Library of Congress catalogue card no 84-1699 There are 3 pages devoted to the song and the author suggests that Jimmie Rodgers may have learnt it from the Afro-American Memphis singer/guitarist Frank Stokes whilst both were working in the same Medicine Show. An Atlanta journalistand stage performer called Ernest Rodgers claims to have heard the song on the radio in 1922. Jim Jackson made a recording of it in 1927 and Whistler (Buford Threlkeld) recorded it 1922.