A cover version performed by Phil Harris stayed on the charts for 4 weeks, reaching number 8 on the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart. Williams made a stereophonic re-recording of the song for Capitol in 1960 on the album, Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!.[5] It has also been covered by Johnny Bond & His Red River Valley Boys in 1947, and by Sammy Davis, Jr., who hit # 89 on the Country Charts in 1982,[6] Willie Nelson, Dennis Weaver, Michael Nesmith, Hank Thompson, Jimmy Dean, Commander Cody (Billboard #94 in 1973), Asleep at the Wheel, and others.[7] Thom Bresh, the son of the song's writer Merle Travis, hit #78 on the Country Charts with the song in 1978.[8]