I'm sorry for this correction almost 20 years after the question.

Joe Offer in his post Subject: Lyr Add: TAILS AND TROTTERS (Judy Goodenough) ^^ Date: 23 Dec 98 - 06:42 PM

quotes a line in the third verse as "He went under the fence and over the wall."

However in the album "And So We Will Yet" by Bok/Trickett/Muir, the order of "under" and "over" is reversed: "He went over the fence and under the wall."

This seems strange ("under" the wall?). However there is good evidence that this is what Goodenough wrote. Ann Mayo Muir and Gordon Bok (at least) both knew her very well-See Alan Seaburg's biography here - It's hard to believe that they would have gotten it wrong.

Further evidence, if more is needed: Goodenough's daughter Anne sings the Muir/Bok/Trickett version on You Tube here and reads the lyrics from a piece of paper.