Lomax says in the note to "The Gambling Suitor": "From singing of Jean Ritchie and Paul Clayton, as published in American Folk Tales and [Folk] Songs, compiled by Richard Chase..." (The Folk Songs of North America, p. 104). Chase, however, writes of the source as: "This song came from Miss Ella Shiflett, who lived on a mountain in Greene County, Virginia" (p. 146). This is in the DT as COURTING CASE (Sharp versions). Other titles are: "The Drunkard's Courtship," "Courting Cage," "Oh, Miss, I Have a Very Fine Farm," "Root, Poor Hogie," "The Wooing."

~Masato