Dingle's version appeared some years earlier in the Saturday Evening Post (Oct. 7, 1922). That would place it back into the 1870s, at least in his opinion.

Of greater significance is a song in F. C. Burnand's one-act "Venus and Adonis" (London: Lacy,[?1864]), p. 14 to the "Air, Werry well done, Jim Crow."

Jupiter sings:

A bachelor's life is very nice
Werry well without JunO!
Before I'd marry I'd think twice,
Werry well without JunO!

Uproarious and glorious,
And werry well without JunO-O-O!
Uproarious and glorious,
And werry well without JunO!

There's more, but that's the gist of it. Burnand included a second parody of "Werry well done, Jim Crow" later in 1864 in his burleaque "Snow-Drop" (London: Lacy).

"Werry" suggests a Cockney song, but it might just as easily have been
lame "n***** dialect." I haven't found any trace of the original. song.