Kendall, your school and mine evidently used the same songbooks. I remember the song well.

Well,,,,, I thought I did. Your words and mine are just a little different, but essentially the same. One of us may be off a little, but it's clearly the same basic set of words.

Do you remember, from the same book, "Centa, Sweet Centa, Refuses her Polenta" from an Italian folksong? Or "Island of My Desire", listed as a Phillipine folksong?

Of course my experience is that the school songbook compilers tend to water down folksongs almost past recognition.

Dave Oesterreich