Hey, howdy! Yep, us old Mudcatters are still around! -- I believe he wrote many of these songs -- many of which we think of as trad. "THE FOOLISH FROG" that Pete Seeger did as a cante fable was by Blake Alphonso Higgs. Also "THE SLOOP JOHN B." ---- "RUM AND COCONUT WATER" etc. I used to have quite early ten inch 33 & a third LP albums by this man. Even a 12-inch LP. A very stylish singer who held forth at one of the big hotels there.

I seem to recall him doing that song about the guy who a gal left alone to mind somebody else's baby!

Ah, hee, oh, hee, rock-a-by-baby,
Rockin' the cradle and left all alone,
Ah hee, oh hee rockin' and singin'
Fo that little baby that's none of my own.

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