I found the below on a forum--and I hope it doesn't further complicate an already complicated search. It is from

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-36369.html

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but what was that tune where - "your furniture's gonna leave you on the next train...."

or something like that
St. John's River, I think:

Baby, can you hear me,
All your furniture's goin' to leave you, yes, yes,
On the next payday.
And nary a cent will I be a giver...

Baby, can you hear me,
Your sweetie's goin' to leave you, yes, yes,
On the next payday.

Baby, can you hear me,
Your sweetie's goin' to ride the Caribou
Down the St. John's River.

The album was True Religion, I think, which was the bottle-neck guitar piece I saw Erik Darling perform with the Weavers, 1961 or '62. He was from Canandaigua NY, in my neck of the woods, and was a member of some of the most important groups of the "folk revival" -- the Tarriers, the Weavers, and the Rooftop Singers. I still can hear him singing Gus Cannon's Walk Right In, one of the last big acoustic hits before the Beatles swept it all away (leaving a few of us washed up on the shore, and still playing those songs 40 years later).