Yeah, "Mr. Tapscott" is just "New York Girls" with the Tapscott theme for solos (as it says in the liner notes). You could mix and match any ballad meter verses, e.g. from "The Dreadnaught," "Banks of Newfoundland," "Old Maui," etc -- all of them work and give you more mileage because of their narratives. Try it! :)

Robinson (1917) had,

Oh My Santi

My name is Larry Doolan, a native of the soil.
If you want a day's diversion, I can drive you out in style.
Then away you Santi! My dear Honey!
Oh! you Santi! I love you for your money.

And Alden (1882) had,

As I was lumbering down the streets of bully London town,
I spied a Yankee clipper ship to New York she was bound.
(Cho.) And hurrah, you Santy, my dear honey;
Hurrah, you Santy, I love you for your money.

Incidentally, a funny comment by Alden was that this song was "unmistakably negro from the fact that the expression "my honey," so common among the negroes of the South, occurs in it." I don't know if this was true for "honey" at the time, but it certainly struck this early writer.