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I fail to understand how the song could lament "the passing of the golden folk days of Dylan, Paxton, Ochs ..." if it was performed by the Limeliters several years before those golden folk days ever happened!  The Limeliters first recorded the song in 1962  coincidentally, the same year that saw the first albums by both Dylan and Paxton.  (Ochs didn't record his first album for another two years.)