[LadyPilgrim]

Just for information to anyone interested! ;-)

Jimmy Driftwood wrote it.
Johnny Horton made it #1 in 1959.

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/battleof.htm

[easonc52]

Jimmy Driftwood wrote it.

Johnny Horton made it #1 in 1959.

Thanks. This thread goes so fast (and that's a totally secondary trivia item), that it took me a while to pay attention, and actually find that answer...