It's odd but I have a screen print of a post in which Jim Carroll actually names a song that his pal supposedly sold to a ballad printer and it was one already available in printed form, and one that nobody is claiming originated with the family, though of course they may have put their own spin on it. For me, the story without that information is another example of mediation within the world of folk, and rather a good one as you could interpret it in terms of the ideological position of the person who tells the yarn.

By the way, SHOCK HORROR.

*Lifelong musician reads books about music*