I recall hearing a recording of Burl Ives singing it back when records were on stone tablets. I learned it from The New Song Fest, compiled by Dick and Beth Best, along about 1955 or so. No program notes, but music and words of all kinds of good songs. Lots of folk songs, spirituals, camp songs, odds and ends.

Obviously not a genuine Troubadour song (11th and 12th centuries). But then, Rudy Vallee used to bill himself as "The Vagabond Troubadour" which, of course, he was not.

Don Firth