Losing patience with waiting for a score to come in, I proceeded to compose one myself this afternoon, and it don't sound so bad if I do say so myself.

It's in "G", 3/4 time, and uses a pretty utilitarian old-timey country chord progression, in keeping with tunes of the period.

I'd scan my score draft in and share it with everybody, but gosh - we can't do that here, can we?

Pity.

Still interested in the original melody score, it anyone has it.

By the way; I sing it as "Thirty U.S." in deference to the original. The old .30-40 Krag would have been available as military surplus (Spanish-American War vintage) during the 1920's, when I'm assuming the song was written, while the Springfield M-1903 would have still been in military use and not commonly available to Civilians. Of course some commercial guns were chambered for '06, but they were pricey, and war-surplus Krags would be in a working-man's price range. And the old krag might not have had quite the range or "punch" of the '06, but it was still nothing to trifle with! A well-placed 220-grain slug or two from a Krag could mess up a brown-bear's day, and certainly make a claim-jumper have second thoughts. I wonder what the "had but one fault" was.