Carol, I see someone dragged our earlier discussion of the song right up beside your request. If you don't see it by the time you get back to this, look for it here: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=3216&messages=6 or just type long ago in the Threads box, set the age to 90 days, and you can find it that way, too.

As far as the first recording is concerned, I don't know, but I do know someone who might. It will likely be a few days before I see him again. It is possible also that he is aware of more of the history of the song than I was able to supply.

Notice too, that while I transcribed the first two verses from the recording, rich added the third, and Alan supplied the Midi file~~points up the co-operative nature of the Mudcat!