Thank you, Stewie: I've been doing this song all of my life, and I learned it off the Anthology of American Folk Music. The words are close to what is posted here, but I like some of the phrases better on the Bentley Brothers recording. Jim Kwesking used to do this in the days before his jug band... the only other person I ever heard do it. It is the song my oldest sister requests most of all.

Jerry