...and I thought there were *only* 33 verses! My version is from a book titled something like "1,000 Folksongs" and a couple of verses are obviously "cleaned up". I'm sure of this as other songs in the book that I know well (e.g. The Foggy Foggy Dew) have also been bowdlerized.

For Verse 7 in the Frank C. Brown Collection version quoted above, my book has a better rhyme:

   My horse threw me off, just like I was a bird,
   He throwed me off near the 2-U herd.

But like a bird???? Please! Surely that must have been originally:

   My horse threw me off, just like I was a turd,
   He throwed me off near the 2-U herd.