Artist: Hoyt Axton
Author: Hoyt Axton/Ken Ramsey
Label: Horizon
Year: 1962

Oklahoma folkie on his first album The Balladeer (Live at the Troubadour). Son of Mae Boren Axton who wrote Heartbreak Hotel (see: Dreaming Blues). Coauthor Ken Ramsey was in The Kingston Trio and first came up with it as some sort of cowboy saga song. Hoyt rewrote some of the lyrics, Ramsey agreed.

Traditional (I Don't Want Your) Greenback Dollar deserves its own entry (see there), not to mention Weems String Band's 1927 Greenback Dollar, an instrumental reel re-issued on Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 and covered by The New Lost City Ramblers ('64).