Whoa, buck!
I will check tonight on date/performers of my version; since it is on the "Blue Seal" label, it's a durn sight prior to 1950.
I'm trying to follow your logic on verse 2 and can't. To to that verse and the "Hope with an anchor" verse are painfully consistent. What are you saying was re-done?
BTW, is "Alice Hawthorne" not a pseudoname for Septimus Winter (Winner?), a Black who also wrote "Listen to the Mockingbird"? Somebody who knows this please save me the grief of looking it up again.
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