Tom T Hall, one of my favorite country song writers, isn't the author of this song; it was writiten by Tony Hazzard. . To the best of my knowledge Tom T Hall introduced this to the bluegrass crowd in the mid seventies. He had an album on Mercury Reocord by that same name. Fox On The Run and he also did a great job of John Prine's "Paradise" in the same album. Tom T. Hall palys a pretty neat banjo when he wants to............