Tonight I was just at a session with Jeff & asked him to sing this & after asked him about some background. He said that there's some question as to weither Jeanne Robert Foster actually wrote this or collected it. All else is as George Wards states above.

Hi George, if I knew you sang this I'd have been bugging you like I bug Jeff, now I can ease up on Jeff a little & you can take on some of his load. See you next time

Barry