The Digital Tradition has two versions of this song, and a number of variants. A search for the Digital Tradition ID number of the song #377, will bring most of the songs, and a search for [buffalo skinners] in square brackets will bring up one or two others that missed getting coded. I'm wondering if the database has all the commonly-known tunes for this song. The two tunes I know are there.
The database has three versions of CANADA-I-O, which is almost the very same song in a different setting. I wonder which one came first.
-Joe Offer-