Art traces the lineage of the American folk song I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground. Perhaps most famously recorded by the great Bascam Lamar Lunsford in 1928 for Brunswick Records, this song has been recorded hundreds of times with hundreds of derivations. This song, which is also the basis for the tunes Tempie Let Your Hair Roll Down and I Wish I Was A Little Bar of Soap, was referred to by Bob Dylan in his tune Stuck Inside Of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again.