Sandburg in "The American Songbag" describes the song as "from the ballad as sung by Nancy Barnhart, painter and etcher, of St Louis. It is a monotone of life in songtones of dusk colors and rhythms that emerge from shadows. The final verse is a scneario for a pantomime." Sandburg calls the song "Dis Mornin', Dis Evenin', So Soon". The "Singout Reprints" adds that Sandburg collected it in the 1920's and that about 10 years later Sam Hinton got a different version from a black farmer in Walker County Texas. Singout printed the Gibson arrangement of the song. Hinton's version was on his Decca album "Singing Across the Land"

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