No aural recording of Bolden's exists, so actual wording is hearsay.
The Atrium, Univ. of Guelph.
Bolden

There was a hoax about a Bolden recording a couple of years ago.

The version by Jelly Roll Morton, quoted by Will Fly, is at redhotjazz.com, but that site is unobtainable today.

Bolden was institutionalized after going insane in 1907 as the result of a heat stroke, supposedly while marching and playing with a band.

In 1909, Louis Jones, a friend, wrote,

"Buddy Bolden began to get famous right after 1900 come up. He was the first to play the hard jazz and blues for dancing. Had a good band. Strictly ear band. Later on Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, Freddie Keppard- they all knew he began the good jazz. John Robichaux had a real reading band, but Buddy used to kill Robichaux anywhere he went. When he'd parade he's take the people with him all the way down Canal Street. When he bought a cornet he'd shine it up and make it glisten like a woman's leg."
W. R. Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University. Quoted in "Coming Through Slaughter," by Michael Ondaatje.