No one knows who wrote this song. Written and recorded as early as 1939, the song was first published and copyrighted in 1940 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell. Paul and Hoke Rice sold the music to Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell shortly before 1940 to pay for his wife's doctor bills. Though some early versions of the song credit the Rice Brothers, descendants and associates of Oliver Hood, a musician who collaborated with Rice, state that Hood wrote the song in the early 1930s and first performed it in 1933, at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention at LaGrange.
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No one knows who wrote this song.
Written and recorded as early as 1939, the song was first published and copyrighted in 1940 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell.
Paul and Hoke Rice sold the music to Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell shortly before 1940 to pay for his wife's doctor bills.
Though some early versions of the song credit the Rice Brothers, descendants and associates of Oliver Hood, a musician who collaborated with Rice, state that Hood wrote the song in the early 1930s and first performed it in 1933, at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention at LaGrange.