Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie said that they taught the song to Haglund.
Haglund went on to name the Seattle restaurant "Ivar's Acres of Clams" after the last line from the ballad.
[3] Bing Crosby included the song in his album How the West Was Won (1959).
Pete Seeger sings additional verses written by Charlie King to protest the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire (1976).
[4][5][6] Both versions of the song are included on the live album Pete Seeger Singalong - Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1980.