i say that the wiled side of life start as a him they say that the tune does go back to 1888 but the first time it came to life was a song called thrills i can't forget. the carter family's song i'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes has a similar tune as thrills i can't forget which was written in 1925 by am carr in 1934 guy clark wrote a song called great speckled bird which was first recorded by roy acuf. in 1951 jimmy heeap rote a song called wild side of life the first recording of this was by hank tompson. when i did the song i played this and did other country songs and made a set of others. i do reviews on my record machine and mention n the songs that heard the tune before the song we all no to that tune. the group were caulled braveheart i played the accordion. from joe