Hi, Janie - the official attribution is what's in the Digital Tradition:Written by Luigi del Puppo and Tino Chumlovich and collected from del Puppo at Nelson, BC 13 Aug. 1970 That's the official word from Bruce "Utah" Phillips and his family. I have heard from people who knew Bruce, that they suspect that del Puppo and Chumlovich are products of Bruce's imagination, and that Bruce Phillips is the actual author. I'm sure Mark Ross will have an informed opinion. Everybody around these parts knew Utah Phillips (my wife is in a meditation group with his widow), but Mark is one who really knew Bruce. At the direction of our publisher, Hal Leonard, on the Rise Again songbook, we put "words & music: Utah Phillips. Copyright 1975 (renewed), On Strike Music. All rights administered by Music Management, PO Box 174, Pleasantville NY 10570." And that's where we got our license from. -Joe-
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