blickie to Melissa's http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=5185#29615
Burl Ives Sang it on record, websearch on several spellings.
Add Burl Ives to the search and that may help.

And my mother (& generation) used to complain that pop records were unintelligable! When I found this song I had a field day.

Good luck.