http://www.starrgennett.org/stories/profiles/dave_macon.htm

One of my favourite old-time artists. I picked up "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By, Jenny"" from one of his albums many years ago. Found it again a couple of years ago - this time in a National Library of Scotland on-line ballad collection "The Word On the Street" - they have a version published in Dumbartonshire, Scotland early 1900s which is close to Macon's version:-

http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/16339/transcript/1

At the time I found a link to a claim of authorship by a sometime music-hall singer of Irish origin based in London, can't find the details now.

Ross