D.D. Emmett's song ("Jordan is a hard road to travel, I believe") was sung by Frankie Armstrong on "Room for Company" and by Bellowhead on "Burlesque". The letter album's notes comment:

    From the American white minstrel movement, this was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett who was also responsible for Dixie, Old Joe Clark and The Blue-Tailed Fly. Published in America in 1853, it travelled quickly to England where it was printed on a number of broadside ballad sheets which contain new references to the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858. Sabine Baring Gould, song collector and author of Onward Christian Soldiers, took two English oral versions from Thomas Darke and Sam Fone of Holcombe Burnell, Devon, in the 1880-90s.

    These can be found in Sabine Baring Gould, Garland of Country Song, London: Methuen, 1895, pp. 22-25, and Roy Palmer, Room for Company, Cambridge: CUP, 1972, pp. 24-35, both out of print. (…) The broadsides are in the Madden Collection in Cambridge and the Bodleian Library in Oxford.