Wow! Another flood of memories. A favorite of ours as children, when sung by our mother as we rocked in her lap on a platform rocker.   - given the 1868 copyright - my guess is she learned it from the "The Civil War Grandpa."

From the Memory Collection - Library of Congress

Captain Jinks

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?...etc removed because it didn't work and messed up text wrapping.

Sincerely,

Gargoyle

Try This link to the sheet music found by a search of the American Memory site. I think it's what .gargoyle was going for. --JoeClone