"Dink's Song", also known as "Norah's Dove", was collected by John Lomax in 1908, sung by an African-American woman called Dink, as she washed her man's clothes in a tent camp of migratory levee-builders on the bank of the Brazos River a few miles from College Station, Texas. It was printed in Pete Seeger's Favorite American Ballads and Lomax's Folk Songs of North America. I learned this from Pete Seeger's recording.