That might be the one he's looking for, but it is not the one I am thinking of. I had always heard it ascribed to Bud Landress, so it surprised me to think that it might be older, otherwise I might not have taken a look at it. He recorded it with The Georgia Yellow Hammers (just about MY favorite of the old time string bands!)on 8-9-27.

From the notes to The Georgia Yellow Hammers lp, Rounder 1032, 1979: This was the band's most successful recording; in 1953 Landress gave an account of its composition to an Atlanta newspaper writer. "Landress, who spent a good deal of his time farming, said he was inspired to write the song one night after he had plowed corn all day. After going to bed, he became fascinated with a picture hanging on the wall of his bedroom and the idea to make the song about it was born. The picture, however, was not one of his mother, about whom the song was written. He got out of bed, wrote the words and 'sawed out the tune' on his old fiddle. Several hours later when the composition was finished, he awakened his wife and sang it to her for an opinion, which probably wasn't very good at that time of night."

Now how much, if any, borrowing he might have knowingly or unknowing done from the earlier piece, I can't say. I do not read music, so I cannot compare that, either.