The earliest version of the song - or its direct ancestor - is in Thomas Rice's blackface minstrel play, "Oh! Hush! or, The Virginny Cupids" (1833):

Come, all you Virginny gals, and listen to my noise,
Neber do you wed wid de Carolina boys;
For if dat you do, your portion will be:
Cowheel and sugar cane, wid shangolango tea.

Full Chorus:
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Mamzel ze marrel - ze bunkum sa!
Mamzel ze marrel - ze bunkum sa!

When you go a-courting, de pretty gals to see
You kiss 'em and you hug 'em like de double rule ob free.
De fust ting dey ax you when you are sitting down
Is, "Fetch along de Johnny-cake - it's getting rader brown."

Before you are married, potatoes dey am cheap,
Money am so plenty dat you find it in de street.
But arter you git married, I tell you how it is -
Potatoes dey am berry high and sassengers is riz.