On my 78 rpm Tim Spencer is listed as the writer. A quick search comes up
with this URL http://www.westernmusic.org/HallOfFamefiles/TimSpencer.html
according to this, the song wouldn't have been written before 1934.
So not much use in your novel I'm afraid.
John

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> So how old IS this song? Could someone have known it in 1905? Can I put it
> in my novel, assuming I can get permission?
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> Cathy
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