It's always nice to see old frends and old threads pop up again.

I actually wrote Paul Asbell (Bernie's son) about this song and to ask if my transcription is accurate. Paul was fascenated that someone still cared about the song and took the trouble to send me an MP3 file of his dad singing it. Needless to say, I was thrilled.

Paul said his dad spelled his name Asbel in those days and adopted the double L spelling later.

My final transcription is pretty close but there are some differences. I think my version is faithful to the way Dwight Saunders sang it so I don't know whether Dwight changed it slightly or just learned it that way. As I said earlier, it's likely that Dwight learned the song directly from Bernie. But Dwight was also friends with Woody and Marjorie and Huddie and Martha and he definately believed in the folk process and common ownership. He would sometimes put songs together differently on different occasions.

      - Mark