My grandmother sang the same song to me in the late 1960's. She was raised in southern Ontario and would have started school in the nineteen-teens. I'm quite sure she would not have learned this song from her own mother (who was German speaking), but with the wide number of older people who just somehow learned it, I suspect it might have been learned from a school reader or commonly sung in school at that time.
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Date: 2014-07-27 11:44 am (UTC)