Barbara-

Just to fill in a little here. Phil's mother Wendy Holt collected the song and passed it on to my mother, Dahlov Ipcar, who sang it to Bill and Gene Bonyun. Bill and Jean deserve the major credit for recording the song and making it available to a larger folk music community, but Wendy was the one who recognized that this song was worth reviving.

Wendy's song notes have been a valuable source for me as well, in that she also collected a lot of songs from Ella Robinson Madison, a Black woman who was nursemaid to my mother in the 1920's; Ella toured internationally with several black minstel bands in the late 19th century and sang in an early production of Porgy in the 1930's.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble