Here are some of my notes from Warner's web-site on tom P. Smith (Joe's last post):

HEY, GET ALONG JOSIE. (Git Along Josie) Tom Smith, b. Guyandotte, W. VA. NYC, 1952. Damon calls the song "Jim Along Josie", and says it was written by New York minstrel-performer Edward Harper in 1838. Frank Warner remembered the song from his childhood in Tennessee and North Carolina.

Tom Smith was a dignified gentleman and a neighbor in Greenwich Village. Mr. Smith had grown up in the 1890's in Huntington, West Virginia, which had been a stop on the road for those headed west in the nineteenth century. His father had learned songs from a mountain woman hired to sew for the family and his mother's family had brought many English songs to Virginia. Mr. Smith learned songs from African-Americans in town and minstrel era songs too. He was also a polished storyteller and a grand talker.

Peggy And Mike Seeger have a version on American Folk Songs for Children, Rounder. Anyone have those lyrics?

-Richie