Joan Baez neemt het nummer Portland Town op in haar Joan Baez Songbook in 1964
en zingt het vaak op het podium in de jaren van de oorlog in Vietnam.
In a few short verses we have the story of a life - birth, marriage, children, war and death -. This vignette is the work of Jack Elliott's old side-kick, Derroll Adams, folk singer and song writer from Portland Oregon, who today makes his home in Belgium.
