Charley, I have that book somewhere in a box in the basement. I may have overlooked the poem because of the dialect - I wasn't nuts about it even as a kid. In any case, written words can never quite manage the impact they can have when combined with a good tune.

Here are the lyrics, and here's a post by Joe Offer including the notes on the song from Jerry's CD. If I string all the "gots" together, it sounds like Art got it from Jerry, who got it from Sue, who got it from Bill, who collected it "in Maine" from Charley's mother who got it from Wendy Holt.

I would like to know about Bill's songs, and what he accomplished in his life. From what I've heard so far, though, Bill Bonyan may have been his greatest accomplishment.