Forgive me for mentioning them on a folkie forum, but didn't the Kingston Trio do a take-off of this song?

"Bad Man's Blunder", it was called - if I recall it rightly.

It was (more or less) the same story, transposed to a Western setting, where the Bad Man kills a deputy sheriff, takes off, gets captured, tried and sentenced to "ninety and nine on the hard rock ground (and all I ever did was shoot a deputy down....)"

OK, that's my 2 euro's worth.