Category: Business of Music

"This song is copyrighted in U.S. under seal of copyright D154085 for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of our'n, 'cause we din't five a dern'. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." (found on a late 1930's songbook distributed by Woody Guthery)