I learned the song from Jeff Warner in the early sixties, and from Frank. The Maine and NH catters could probably get Jeff to sing it without having to withold beer. The better part of a generation of kindergarten through 5th graders when my daughter was in those grades on Bainbridge Island in Washington know the song now. The incoming kindergarten class always had to be reassured that it wasn't a true story. I tried to hedge on that. :)