I'm glad you were able to find the song you were looking for and I suppose this thread will fade away

Well, maybe not.

Some threads are "refreshed" years after the last post just by virtue of someone adding on a new comment. I'm not saying this one will be such a thread, but maybe it will be...

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Thanks Neil D and Poppagator {and anyone else I may have missed} for providing examples of Mother Goose and other fairy tale characters in Blues songs.

How about that for combining Mudcat's twin interesta in folk music and blues music!