The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #20413   Message #4140263
Posted By: Lighter
26-Apr-22 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Tom Sherman's Barroom
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tom Sherman's Barroom
The cowboy song (with a cowboy, not a ranger) was reported in two texts from Kentucky as early as 1911, the year of Maynard's booklet.

See Shearshin & Combs, "A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs."