Have you read the book Legends of the Outer Banks? I found that a song I was singing as a fiction was actually part of a longer story from the Prohibition Era. I got the song from Ed Trickett when he was doing a set at South Street Seaport.
That was the night that they were shooting Superman Flying down the East River and, immediately after the shoot, the entire Northeast lost power. It was raining, so, when the lights went out, we adjourned to under the FDR drive.