well here are my thoughts the rules of ryhming should be the same in all laguages and seen as the english vesion ryhms (the ends of the last words in the phrases make the same sound)and i can't immagine that those words beeing translated into anyother language could still ryhm. so basically my conclution is that this song must have been originally written in english (unless the words were changed to make them rhym..) here's my other conclution, it seems to have been all over north america since around the 1960's so it had to have been written long enough before that for it to have spread across the country. my other thoughts are that it must have been shared at a camp with alotof people from veriouse places around the country

alright now i heard the version about the sick girl looking out her wiindow ect. but reading everyone elses has really hit me a bit harder cause my little sister (11) has been batteling leukemia for the past 2 years so ya keep looking i will too