Minor corrections and additions:
4th verse (generally) is 'pocket' not 'bucket.'
The Charlie Lofthouse dedication was for the follow-on "Bahama Lullaby" release, sorry.

Alice D. Simms (rn. Simon?) American educator-composer-author. Born 13 January 1917, New York, N.Y. d. (unk) BA from Cornell and piano with Elizabeth Strauss at Damrosch (precursor to Irving Burgie's alma mater The Juilliard School.) ASCAP mem. 1946

She was what was known as a "cleffer." No surprise for the times her biggest output was (long-lost) radio script but she held her own with the Tin Pan Alley and Bay Street Boys in New York and Nassau:

Love is So Misleadin' (w/ Gene Autry)
Encore, Cherie; Tonight (w/ Fred J. Coots, Tex Beneke, et al)
Foolishly Yours (w/ Leonard W. Joy)
Come to the Casbah, A Wandering Troubadour (w/ Kay Twomey)
and maybe 2-3 dozen more.

Authors and music historians have an astonishing capacity to disconnect the above from her calypso output. If she gets mentioned at all it's as a winter visitor or tourist. She was, in fact, a huge promoter of junkanoo and goombay music and musicians.

Calypso Island (also covered by the Merrymen)
Coconut Water, Rum and Gin
Junkanoo
Push Push
Goombay (w/ Charlie Lofthouse)
and maybe a dozen more.