Lin and Dale - Thanks for the additional research leads.

The tune by John Reynolds doesn't appear to be that similar to the one that Wendy Holt and the Bonyuns sang but I'm handicapped in terms of interpreting musical notation; they just don't seem to correlate. I'm comparing the musical score from Reynolds with one transcribed by John Anthony Scott in 1960 from the singing of Gene Bonyun; Scott, I believe, was associated with the Old Sturbridge Village Museum in MA.