The "Glorious Souse Song" 1916 has a copyright entry:

GLORIOUS SOUSE SONG fox trot, words
anonymous, version and arrangement
by Paul B. Klugh, of U.S. 269
(c) Dec. 1 1916; 2 c. Dec. 16 1916;
E 396727; Imperial player roll co.,
Chicago.

So the copyright is only claiming an arraignment and no copyright
at all for the words.

Note the "Souse" means "drinking" or "drunk". I can find other
references to "souse songs" from 1890s to 1920 and, of course,
there is the obsolete term "soused" for being drunk.