Two versions are in Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner and Geraldine Jencks Chickering, Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan (1939; rpt. Folklore Associates, 1967, p. 173). Version B, which has four stanzas, is the one; the note says: "Sung in 1935 by Mr. Charles Bunting, Alger, who learned the song from his mother, of English descent, in Livingston County, Michigan, when he was a small boy."