I always associate this song with a hammer dulcimer player, then living in Chicago, named PAUL GOELZ. I always thought Paul wrote it. This goes back to the early or mid 1970s.

An OOKPIK is a SNOW OWL---is from Canada and northern climes. They are snow white in the winter and change to brown in the summertime. We saw one in Jasper National Park on a trip through the Canadian Rockies---1969. And Carol still has a small OOKPIK in our bedroom on a shelf. It was CREE made I'm pretty sure. Somewhere near the Peace River. (Right near where I saw the perfect name for a band that never got formed on a huge grain elevator. THE MIGHTY PEACE GRAIN LIMITED !!!

Art Thieme