Larry Saidman's correct about Paul Evans other hits like "Seven Little Girls." My sister and I had an album of his called "The Greatest Folk Songs Ever Sung" back in the early 60s during the Hootenanny TV show era. Most of the greatest songs were ones that my sis and I, both folkies, had never heard of. And I have no memory of what the other greatest songs were. But this one (and I don't even remember the title on the album) has alway stuck with both of us, fifty years later. And for some godforsaken reason I found myself humming it today and thought, what the heck, I wonder if it's on Mudcat...

The Paul Evans felt, perhaps, that it was more attuned to the Hungarian Revolution but maybe I'm reading too much into it.