The old time guitar picker, Sam McGee, does a version of Bad Lee Brown on the album Mike Seeger recorded of him in the late 1960's, titled something like "Grandad of Country Guitar Pickers" (I just listened to it, but it's at home).

He has fairly complete verses, but the melody is a little flatter than I've heard others do. No minor chords like Richie's above. I also heard it done 35 years ago by a kid who came back to Wyoming after spending a summer in Tennessee - he used a circle of fifths chord progression - G, E, A, D, G.   It's a great song, and after hearing McGee do it, I'm going to relearn it!