Verse 3- Astor House ((famous for fine food at the time)
Hoeing out corn (logical, but not 100% sure)
The rest ??

The Bodleian has the song in their collection, but it is really another song- "I Left Ole Virginny One Fine Day"- with the chorus lines "Jenny Get Your Hoecake done, My lady Jenny get your hoecake done----" grafted on.

Lyr. Add.: JENNY GET YOUR HOECAKE DONE

I left Ole Virginny one very fine day,
The sea was wide, and I sail'd all the way
The wind blew high, & blow'd so cold,
It blow'd the ship to ole Liverpool,
O, Jenny get your hoecake done, my lady
Jenny get your hoecake done.

One night there came a mighty storm,
Which gave the nigger great alarm,
I see the Captain run on deck,
I thought ole nigger would be shipwreck.
O, Jenny etc.

Next morn we anchored in the stream,
It seem'd to me just like a dream-
I call'd a boat, and row'd ashore,
And swore they'd catch me at sea no more.
O, Jenny, etc.

I jump off the boat I landed on the pier,
My feet felt so funny, & my head so queer
My head and heels they kept in such a motion,
I thought I was still sailing on the ocean.
O, Jenny, etc.

Then I went uptown, and a street did cross,
I stept just as high as an old blind hoss,
The people look'd and saw my figure,
And they said, 'there goes a mighty tall figure'.
O, Jenny, etc.

One white man say I make a fuss,
So he took me off to the Custom House,
And then they would not let me go,
'Till I paid the duty on the old banjo.
O, Jenny, etc.

Now white folks I'll have you know,
There is no music like the old banjo,
And if you want to hear it ring,
Look at the fingers on the string.
O, Jenny, etc.

Bodleian Library, Ballads Catalogue, Harding B 15(146a), no date (18--), Printer Neesom, London.
Probably made up for an English tour. Wonder what the English made of hoecake? A scone?