And, as I've said, the version I got from 93 year old hobo, Paul Durst, in 1961, says:"Here's to Montana Whitey..."

Paul said that he and Whitey were jumping a freight in the yards in Missoula, Montana in 1910 (Paul was already 42 years old) and Whitey lost his grip, fell, and was killed. Paul always put Whitey's name into the song, "just to remember him".
And that's how I always sang the song.

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