Variants of this song have been sung for seventy years
on westering high roads in America. Since 1933 it has
became the song of the migrant families who were tractered out of Texas, dusted out of Oklahoma and flooded out of Arkansas.
Will Neal age 63 - Arvin. Playing since 14 yrs (handwritten on reverse) b) Will Neal...champion fiddler in Arvin Camp. Won many fiddlin' contests. 1940. (typed and attached)