Someone correct me if I'm wrong - but on the 'Wonderful Grand Band' album on which this song first appeared (I believe), it only had the first two verses. I learned it off that record, and it was many years later that I first heard the 'Sonny's dreams can't be real' verse - which I felt weakened the song, the poetry of that third verse being flaccid compared with that of the first two, which is perhaps why it didn't make the cut on the original(?) recording.