Origin of a Specific Song

Factual Questions
1

When I was in 4th grade (Warrenton, VA, 1976) our music teacher taught us the following song:

Does anyone recognize the song? Title? Author? I’m wondering about its origins.

Thanks!

Most common question I ask: “What?”
Most common question I get: “Are you really hearing impaired?”

2

There you go, Cant:

http://gunther.simplenet.com/v/data/billboar.htm

origins seem uncertain…

3

omniscientnot, You should change your name to omniscientkinda!

Thanks for the link.

4

C.: I would change it to omniscient, which would be much closer to reality, but my sometimes evil twin beat me to it :smiley:

5

Actually I have a recording by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs singing this song.

For the youngings they were a couple of bluegrass players with a very distinctive style. They did comedy and songs on stage. You might get a glipse of them on “The Berverly Hillbills”.

They were before my time too, I’m not that old.

6

Phobia says (re Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs):

“They were before my time too, I’m not that old.”

But you have good taste!

Bob the Random Expert
“If we don’t have the answer, we’ll make one up.”

7

Less filling!