I did not know that John Loudermilk wrote that song, as I only recall the late 60's schlock version. I liked his version a lot more. Thank you.
This may be his best known song, though many may not associate it with him:
Tobacco Road
In the summer of 1971, when another schlock version of "Lament of the Cherokee Nation" was riding high on the charts, the radio station KREL, broadcasting "oldies" at 1370 kcs out of Corona, Calif., gave the Loudermilk version a lot of airplay, so that's how I became familiar with it.
I prefer Loudermilk's version of "Tobacco Road" over the Nashville Teens' version that scored four years later, in 1964. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, Loudermilk's The Language of Love (1961) was also on the playlist of KWIZ, an "oldies" station at 1480 kcs in Santa Ana, Calif.