 The song Wallace Beery (qv) sings as he marches on horseback with  his group is not the more famous song "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"  appearing in the movie of the same name in 1949. It dates back to  the Civil War, and there are many variations of it. The first known  copyright of a version (listed in the soundtrack section) was in  1917, by George A. Norton (qv).