All right, one of the interviews posted to this thread
says a specific thing or to,
to justify my question.
See post dated 27 April 2014 which references The Washington Post.

Here are the details:
Pete Seeger, interviewed over the phone,
"calls it a yodeling blues song, and sings the chorus . . ."

and:
"hopes to publish the song in the folk magazine 'Sing Out.' "

Okay, I don't read Sing Out.
There have to be Mudcatters who do so.
Did this song ever turn up,
with or without a tune,
in 'Sing Out' magazine?