lol I learned that song when I was little as well, but it was Johnny Rebeck. A few years back I did some research and found a more common name was Verbeck. I love how old songs like this evolve.
Every time we show off the game, there is always like, one or two people that show up and know the song haha - awesome. Yeah, I chased the history of the song quite a bit while working on this to see what I could find - in the most vague terms possible, where are you from? (don't dox yourself!) It seems to be more popular in the Midwest USA.