THANK YOU Mr. Q.
This is one of my favorites songs, and first learned (via Frost/Steinbeck/Stanford)
Your attribution, to the original source of your text (who, when, where) helps to triangulate (from multiple sources) an origin, or well-spring closest to the first text.
Mr. Q.... it is people like you ....with original (annotated) contributions that have kept the MudCat alive as a "folk repository."
I salute you. Heil!!!
Sincerely,
Gargoyle