The verses are floaters from old African-American secular songs, many of which used the two-line rhyme. It would take some time to find all the actual uses, but a few examples, and then strung together to make a song like "PO' BOY LONG WAY FROM HOME" gives the idea. There must be many hundreds (thousands?). Two of them are from jodies, Azizi should recognize them.

Going to the race track to see my pony run;
If I win any money gonna give Caledonia some.
(Collected 1915-1916 from track layers; from White, American Negro Folk Songs)

It takes the rocks and gravel to make a solid road,
It takes a good-lookin' woman to satisfy my soul.
(Heard at fertilizer plant, Al, 1915, same reference)

Takes rocks and gravel to make a solid road,
I love you woman but your husband is a man I do despise.
(Samer reference; from workers at dolomite quarry in Alabama)

Boat's up de ribber an' she won't come down
B'lieve to my soul she's water-boun'.
Oh, my ragtime Liza Jane.
(Same reference, railroad gangs, 1915, Alabama)

Examples from PO' BOY-
I wish a 'scushion train would run,
Carry me back where I cum frum.

My mother daid an' my father gone astray,
You never miss you mother till she done gone away.

No need, O babe, try to throw me down,
A po' little boy jus' come to town.

So she laid in jail, back to de wall,
Dis brown-skin man cause of it all.

or 'LOOKED DOWN DE ROAD

Looked down de road jes' far as I could see,
Well, the band did play "Nearer my God, to thee."

and etc.
I liked these-
If my girl refuse me, shove me into the sea,
Where de fishes an' de whales make a fuss over me.

and extended into four lines-
When I'se been dead, you needn't bury me at tall,
You mought pickle my bones in alkihall;
Den fold my han's "so", right across my breas';
An' go an' tell de folks I'se done gone to rest.

Also many in Odum and Johnson, The Negro and His Songs.