The song is listed in six books in our Scout Songbooks Index PermaThread. We don't have any recent songbooks in that thread. Maybe it's time to get back to work on it.

This is the 140th message in this thread on "Barges." So far, we haven't found the origin of this song. I think the general feeling is that the story of the bedridden Girl Scout watching barges out her window is fictitious.

But it's nice to have a modern (?) song about barges. There haven't been many barge songs since the demise of the Erie Canal. I'm fascinated by the huge blocks of barges I've seen on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, but I haven't seen songs about them except for this one, which may or may not be about those blocks of barges. I think I've counted over twenty in some of those blocks of barges on the Mississippi, all of them held together tightly with steel cables to make a single vessel.