Cathy Barton's compendium of songs and tunes was pretty much inexhaustible, and she was a killer banjo player, and she had a voice you could listen to all day. Everything in her cover of Gail Davies' Grandma's Song applies, except the "old" and swap out Oklahoma for Missouri. Over forty years, she and her husband Dave Para taught those old folk songs (and some newer ones), and those old tunes, to countless people. And if you wanted to know how a reindeer got into a song from the Ozarks, they could surely tell you. A rock-solid legacy, but gone too soon.
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