"Old Dan Whelan, with whiskers in his ears He's been the kingpin fiddler for nearly thirty years"
That supposedly ngdb????

Say, have any of you fellows ever heard of Stephen Vincent Benet?

check here for the full poem.

'... and explains how Stephen Vincent Benet's 1925 classic poem "The Mountain Whippoorwill" was inspired by country fiddler Lowe Stokes winning an Atlanta fiddle contest in 1924. '