[1] As Jelly Roll Morton explained, "A pallet is something that – you get some quilts – in other words, it's a bed that's made on a floor without any four posters on 'em.
"[2] A 1906 report in the Indianapolis Freeman referred to a performance of the song by "The Texas Teaser, Bennie Jones".
"[4] "The lyrics first appear in a 1911 article by folklorist Howard Odum, who had transcribed them from a performance he had heard in Mississippi a few years before.
[3] The first recording of the melody appears in Handy's band's 1917 performance of "Sweet Child", which was written by Stovall and Ewing.
[6] During a live session captured by Alan Lomax, Delta blues guitarist and singer Sam Chatmon accounted, "When I first started picking guitar it was about the first or the second [song] I learned ... [I] was about 4 years old",[7] making it the year 1900 when Sam learned the song in Bolton, Mississippi.