Things are becoming still more interesting. John, is there a single collected version of "John Henry" that seems to combine several of your elements, or two or three texts in a cluster from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee or Mississippi that combine to give the picture you develop?

If "between the mountains," "Cap'n Tommy," "buried him in the sand," "took him to the white house" showed up in some kind of cluster, the case would move from "conceivable" to "very likely." You see what I'm saying.