Hi Q,

Of course you're right about the famous Bland song. We'd need to find more info to have it as a basis but that line might have been all AP needed create his song.

The Journal of American Folk-lore By American Folklore Society, JSTOR (Organization), Project Muse Published by Published for the American Folk-lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1945
Item notes: v.58-59 1945-1946

There are 30 songs collected by Crabtree from Overton County. Apparently the text of the Carter Family song Dying Soldier is there. It might be the wrong edition but at the time I posted I traced it to this 1945 edition.

Richie