If anybody is out there, thank you so much for this. I have spent over fifty years wondering about the lyrics to this song. I won't tell you the nonsensical lyrics I have sung in my head for over fifty years, but they certainly weren't "the house I was brung up in." The song now makes sense.

However, I will comment that I never heard "chow who's a corkin' roast beef now." Rather, I heard, "Here inside I've got a cow who's a cooking roast beef now, so you see..."

If the people who wrote this are still there, and if my message gets through, thank you.

Now I guess I'll start looking for "Elton Britt" to see if that's the version on the 78 that my family had.

I am skeptical that Ramblin' Jack Elliot wrote the song. He's not old enough. (But skepticism is not truth.)

Kevin Widen, Smithers BC, Canada