"Johnny Booker" also known as "Knock John Booker", "Mister Booger" and "Old Johnny Booker". This widely disseminated song/tune is known as a banjo piece and stems from the minstrel era where it was called "Old Johnny Bigger" among other titles. Sheet music published around 1840 gives the song as "Jonny Boker or the Broken Yoke" "as sung by J. W. Sweeney" (Sweeney's Virginia Melodies). It is very similar to "Old Dan Tucker" in this section. Gene Winnans mentions an African-American banjo player named Gus Cannon, who worked medicine shows from 1914 to 1929. Cannon's first two tunes (learned in "strumming style") were "Old John Booker You Call that Gone" and "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", learned from "Old Man Saul" Russell, who "just played around the house for his own amusement". The New Lost City Ramblers also report the song's use by minstrel and medicine show comedians "up until 1910, most of them using a tune derived from "Turkey in the Straw". There are also some sea shanteys about Johnny Booker". The musical West Virginia Hammons family had members who played this tune. It was recorded by The New Lost City Ramblers, Dan Gellert, Cousin Emmy, Pete Seeger and others. I learned it from the recording of John and Penny Cohen on Elektra Records' Old Time Banjo Project.