Way back in 1997 the original poster wrote:
>I last heard this song in Ithaca, NY about six or seven years ago--there was a man with a bushy black beard who would be asked for it just about every sing.
The man with the beard was surely Phil Shapiro, host of WVBR's Bound for Glory radio show. He's a regular at the Ithaca sings and has been singing this song for many years.
'night
Eric