Bill, given the conversation, this struck me funny:

After seeing Suffet's Taco song, I gotta play it. I'm embarrassed to not know the tune, but went looking. I searched for "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down"+Lyrics. While I got what I was looking for , half the other hits were for Aerosmith's "Dude Looks A Lady". They use the phrase at the end of the song.

Now, I'm not saying "Dude" is folk, but Tyler certainly heard the Dylan and Von Schmidt.

Seems we may be mixing the basic song with performance and influence?