Artist: Edward L. Crain
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1931

Roud #2243. Also as The Ballad Of Cole Younger. John A. Lomax collected a version in 1910 for his Cowboy Songs. About a highwayman from Missouri, son in a slaveholding family who along with Jesse James' older brother joined a guerrilla band during the Civil War and who specialized in bank and train robbing afterwards, captured in 1876, pardonned in 1901. Reissued on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952.