As it says in the notes to "Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley" (Smithsonian Folkways double CD SF40029/30) thia is a "happy combination" of two songs, "The Bird Song" or "Leathwing Bat" and "The Jolly Miller". Cecil Sharp noted a version from Jane Gentry of Hot Springs. I have always liked the version sung by Clint Howard on this double CD (and, in this case, he certainly knew that he was being recorded!)