The first time I heard the song was in a Seattle coffeehouse ("The Place Next Door") in late 1961 or early 1962. It was sung by a former guitar student of mine named Paul Gillingham. He and a fellow from Boston (whose name I can't recall) were singing together and they did it as a duet. Terrific rendition! I asked them where they had learned it, and they said they'd got it from the Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt recording.

Not that this necessarily means anything, but we hadn't even heard of Bob Dylan by then.

Doesn't Dave Van Ronk say something about this is The Mayor of MacDougal Street?

Don Firth