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I remember my 1st grade teacher singing this song while wearing her "field day" hat: it had A&W rootbeer cans crocheted into it with pink yarn. The version you are listening to is from a 1974 album entitled Pete Seeger & Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street. The folksy sound appeals to me as reminiscent of what the song might have sounded like in the days when settlers tried to tame the wild American frontier.