Good story, Jim.

But can it really be that this song goes back only to 1939, and no further? By the time I was a kid in Detroit in the 1950s, this was the sort of thing I was learning from my sainted grandmothers. And of course, I assumed it was a song that had always been. Could it be that my grandmothers were teaching me mere pop songs, and not the Wisdom of the Ages?

-Joe-