This was one of the songs we always sang when we got together to sing as folkie high school kids in Philadelphia in the late 60s. Bob, I'm really glad you started this thread. I always thought of it as Yiddish folk song with a slightly stuffy English translation, and left it at that. Thanks for the info, everybody, and especially for the original Yiddish, Joe. Are you SURE you're not Jewish? By the way, Jon Freeman did a nice rendition on HearMe tonight. (Well, today for me...)

Aloha,
Mark