I learned the song from Dwayne 35 years ago in Greenwich Village. I think he told me that he wrote it for entry in a songwriting contest.
If anybody around Chi sees him tell him I said hello. He was(and I hope still is), a great picker and singer, and writer. I remember seeing him at at the Cafe AuGoGO playing the hell out of the break on FOUR RODE BY, Ian Tyson sitting there with his mouth open watching him.

Mark Ross