Here's an audio link to Rune Lindström's Swedish version of the song performed by Mora Träsk (Mora Lake) on their 1979 album Joe Hills sånger (Joe Hill's songs):

The lyrics of this song are not by Irwin Goodman but by Emil von Retee, a pseudonym of Vexi Salmi, one of the most prolific Finnish lyricists of all times. Goodman and Salmi were like hand and glove. Befriended at the age of three and four, they grew up together in the same neighborhood and their friendship lasted until Goodman's death in 1991. Salmi wrote the lyrics to most of Goodman's compositions and acted as his manager.

Goodman's 1966 tango titled Marcello Magaroni has an interesting bearing on Italy. It's a benevolent parody of Umberto Marcato, an Italian singer from Padova, who made a remarkable career in Finland in the 1960's by covering Finnish tangos and deserving the unconditional love of Finnish tango fans of which there were and still are quite a lot. Most of his covers were in Italian, such as (Restera) (original Finnish title Liljankukka, Flower of a Lily), but he also sang... (continua)