Pardon---Sandberg's book came out in '27.

Of this song he says, This puculiarily American song in text A is from Arthur Sutherland of Rochester, N.Y., as learned from comrades in the American Relief Expedition to the Near East. It is a lyric of tough days. The pulsation is happy until contemplative pauses, the wishes and the lingerings, of that final line in each verse, and the prolonges vocalizing of "like". The philosophy is desperate as the old sailor saying, "To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all, would be too damned hard. Texy B, also a lyric of tough days, is from Hubert Canfield of Pittsford, New York.

Text A:

1)...engineer
...hack
washin'
...jack

chorus)And it looks like,
I'm never gonna cease my wanderin'.

I been a wandering,
Early and late
From N.Y.City
To the golden gate.

Been a-workin' in the army
Workin' on the farm
All I got to show for it
Is the muscle in my arm.

Text B:

1)Snakes on the mountain
And eels in the sea
'Twas a red headed woman
Made a wreck out of me.

Same chorus

2)Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
If whisky don't get you
Then the womwen must.

Art Thieme
(I got this from Win Stracke--a founder of the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago. Win learned it directly from Carl Sandberg I believe. Frank Hamilton, do you know for sure?