According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln’s favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby ...

Wrong guy: those are songs popularized by folk singer Burl Ives. The fact that Charles Ives is the less popularly known of the two famous American musical Iveses is ironic, since Charles Ives had a ...