Artist: Bob Gibson
Author: traditional
Label: Riverside
Year: 1957
Riverboat song about floods on the Ohio river in 1937, collected by Mary Wheeler in Steamboatin' Days - Folk Songs Of The River Packet Era (Louisiana State University Press - 1944). On his Carnegie Concert album, Bob mentioned this publication while introducing the song.
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