Artist: Ernest Branch & The West Virginia Ramblers
Author: Harry Wright
Label: Superior
Year: 1931
English Music Hall song from 1877; Original title: I Traced Her Little Footmarks In The Snow. Re-issued on Old Time Music From West Virginia Vol 1&2 (County).
Covers:
Red Foley [as I Traced Her Little Footmarks In The Snow]
Cliff Carlisle [as Footprints In The Snow]
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys [idem; top 5 C&W; claimed his own credits under alias Rupert Jones]
Bradley Kincaid [idem]
Rose Maddox [idem]
Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson [idem]
Flatt & Scruggs [idem]
Osborne Brothers [idem]
Mac Wiseman [idem]
Carl Smith [idem]
Jimmy Martin & Ralph Stanley [idem]
Leon Russell [idem]
Ry Cooder [idem on My Name Is Buddy with own lyrics]
Robert Earl Keen [idem]
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