FURTHER ~~Just found the following on a website re the Jesse James legend,
==    The Billy Gashade mentioned in the last verse, was a friend of the James Family, and a printer with the Liberty, Missouri newspaper. This last verse claims that he wrote the song. Maybe, maybe not -- to confuse this issue is the fact that some respected authorities render this name as Lashade. Another story has it that a black convict wrote this verse while in jail==

from "A Clipping from My Jesse James Scrapbook"
by Thurston James
http://www.jessejames.org/FOTJF/ballad.html


~M~