Harry Peters, Folk Songs Out of Wisconsin (1977), prints a text "sung for Helene Stratman-Thomas by Henry Humphries, age seventy-six, Hancock, Wisconsin; by John Christian, Coloma, Wisconsin, and by Bill Neupert, age fifty-three, Schofield, Wisconsin, in 1940-41,"

Yet only the first five, almost innocuous, stanzas are collated from these performances. The final two are taken straight from Oscar Brand.

James F. Leisy's Folk Song Abecedary (1996) prints a six-stanza version "pieced together with the help of Jim McDaniel, an outdoorsman from Minnesota." It's much like Brand's, and the two concluding stanzas are identical to it.