In 1935 So Long It's Been Good To Know You was written by Woody. On his behlaf Alan and John Lomax had heard of the tune finding that the tune that Woody sung and wrote was the Ballad of Billy the Kid. That song was written in 1927 by a blind man called Andrew Jenkins that song tells the story about a boy from Mexico called William Bonny whose nickname was Billy the Kid. The song was first sung byVernon Dalhart in 1927. Meanwhile Woody Guthrie never heard that recording but John Lomax talked about it and the writer Andrew Jenkins but Woody had written a new set of words that Alan and john liked. from Joe