"By the way, I realize that Ernie Ford or someone along the way sanitized the lyric to NOT say: “Jeff Davis was a gentleman, Abe Lincoln was a fool….” Guess some stuff was un-PC even back then."

Mike, maybe the Old Pea Picker was just too much of a gentleman to really insult anybody. I too like Tennessee Ernie. Every Christmas when I was I child my mom would play his Christmas album. What a memory for me!

I've never heard his civil war albums but have often given thought to ordering them. You have now inspired me to finally get around to it.