this was so interesting and is the perfect example of the evolutionary nature and joy of true "folk music". I just played the utah philips LP to convert to digital and looked up Tolono song and found this thread.

I was thinking a lot about the changing nature of songs after spending time in Newfoundland this year and hearing "their" (sic) grand anthem "this land is your land" they sang it with places in Newfoundland and truly believed it was their song.. they never heard about woody guthrie or the US version at all and did not include the protest verses.   

I was reminded of being in england for the queens jubilee in 1977 and with some friends when they started singing what i thought was "my country tis of theee" but turned out to be "god save the queen" so guess we all borrow songs and tunes and thus the interesting version and history of songs like wabash cannonball!