I believe Hoyt Axton wrote it. The Harry Fox Agency and other reliable sources say he did, although there are other songs by that title.

I am sure nobody has ever come close to Hoyt's magnificent performance of it on the album Saturday's Child. His style, his voice and his guitar playing are the best. His version is haunting and unforgettable. I have listened to all the others I could find and was greatly disappointed in every case.

The lyrics posted above by Joe Offer come closest to Hoyt's recording. I came here hoping to find one word that I can't make out on the album. What is that word? "...Yeah, look at me workin' here on this __________? county farm..."

That word is stated above to be "goddamn", or "hot old", or "knockdown", or just left out. I don't believe any of them is the word Hoyt used. I hear "Noxon county farm", but is that right? There is a Noxon town in Montana, but I can find no county anywhere by that name.

I hope somebody can clear this up.