At risk of turning this Blog into the Tom Paxton fan site, today would be an excellent day to listen to this song again.
I think it must be one of the four or five genuinely great "authored" folk-songs of all time. (*)
There is absolutely no excuse for The Marvellous Toy.
P.S
(*) Grand Coulee Dam, Masters of War, The World Turned Upside Down, Hollow Point, maybe?