Stone County Arkansan, Glenn Ohrlin, used to sing a great and quite different version of this song that he got from his friend and neighbor named Sam Hess. I always preferred it to Jimmie's song. It's in my collection somewhere. I hope I can find it.---Glenn put it on an LP put out by Archie Green and the Folklore Society at the University Of Illinois about 1960 or '61.

Also, there was another different version collected in Iowa from a woman named Mrs Dogle-Manning -- but I can't recall her first name.

We will see...

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