I always (since I heard the Anthology, and more recently the Document Burnett and Rutherford recording, that Dick Burnett was actually J Richard Burnett and it was autobiographical:

. . . his initials are J R B

I've listened to it many times (almost as many times as I've listend to Charlie Poole singing Monkey on a String) and have convinced myself that it COULD be a B, but I'm not sure.