Gooding Sheep Song (unknown, early 1900s). Typewritten lyrics with no title are in the Special Collections of the Ketchum Community Library.  The only marking is the handwritten “MS-379”.  The song is a mild protest at tax policy that favored powerful interests, including the sheep empire of governor Frank Gooding, who with his brothers established a sheep empire in south central Idaho.  Gooding was born in England in 1859 and emigrated to America in 1881, where he rapidly gained financial success and political power. He was Idaho's governor from 1905 to 1909 and U.S. Senator from 1921 until he died in 1928. The meter and lyrics strongly suggest the song borrowed the melody of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.  The song is rendered here by John Larsen of Marsing.