Everybody knows the cliche "loose as a goose." It's turned up in several recent pop and rock songs:

Funky like a chicken, loose as a goose,
As happy as a bunny or as tight as a noose ...

Of late there's a connection to "drunk as a skunk" but I don't know how far back that tie-in goes -- it might only be a recent combination by the likes of Li'l Josh, or as in Tower of Power's "The Skunk, the Goose and the Fly":

Drunk as a skunk
Loose as a goose
High as a fly

What I'd like to find is "loose as a goose"'s earliest occurrence in a song. So far the champion is Uncle Dave Macon's "Travelin' Down the Road," which he first recorded for Brunswick in June 1929, but it remained unissued. The first time "Travelin' Down the Road" actually reached record was on Bluebird BB-B7234, recorded eight years later, August 1937.

Uncle Dave now and then satirized riffs from popular music, as with "He Won the Heart of My Saro Jane" and others.

When he used "loose as a goose," was he just quoting a saying from his own childhood? Did he make it up himself (unlikely, I think)? Or did he get it from elsewhere in the music world?

Anyone know a song EARLIER than 1929 using the phrase "loose as a goose?"