@ Jim Dixon: Thank you, Jim Dixon, for all that information, the list of singers and the sheetmusic. I did not know of the Online 78-rpm Discography Project, nor of the Indiana University website, and am grateul to know of both.

Since the title of the song gave its name to a compilation, it must have stood out as more than ordinarily memorable and good of its kind.   

The "style" of the song does not *seem* to go with a yodel, and it is nice to know that it was yoked with one. I wonder how successful the combination was.

The three copies of the sheet music (Melbourne: Allens] in the National Library of Australia catalogue are lited as c.[=about, I mean, not (c)] 1901. The Later {"Melbourne: Allen's] reprint of the sheet-music in a collection that I had and have now mislaid also had just the two stanzas, so the song must have been written and sung as an open-ended narrative from the start. I think I shall write a third stanza myself saying what happened...

@kendall: do you mean a recording sung by you, sir (which would be a delight), or one of the many that Mr Dixon has listed (which would also be delights)?

@ Guest.999: No, no: don't go looking for Bunny Berigan doing "Just Plain Folks". It doesn't exist. I am interested in *references* to the popular music that I loved in novels and biographies. I read a novel in 1965 which I can't remember the name of now. And *that* novel had its hero singing "Just Plain Folks" as a teenager ,with great emotion,and even mentioned the singers on the particular recording he was singing along to, AND that novel also mentions Berigan. Wth such scanty information I cannot find that novel...   Somebody other than me will remember it one day, andnote down the reference here.

Sanjay Sircar