Wasn't Ernie Ford's rendition of "Farewell" on the flip side of "The Ballad of DC" rather than "16 Tons"?? I had both of these 45's (though 16 Tons belonged to my mother) so I could be getting them mixed up, but that's what my aging boomer's memory tells me. If anyone is looking for his recording of it, they might want to keep this possibility in mind.

My record jacket had a wicked drawing of a guy with a rifle and a coonskin cap, and I used to get into fierce school-yard arguments about whether it was "born on a mountain in..." or "born on a mountain-TOP in..." because Ford sang one and Ebsen sang the other. Never did sort that one out...