We may have a tentative origin to the song! From Buffalo Evening News, July 24th, 1897: Can you please procure for me the words to a song which were sung by Billy Rice's minstrels a few years ago, the first few lines of which were: I was born in Jersey City In Texas, In the South And that's the very reason Why my voice is in my mouth.
Can you please procure for me the words to a song which were sung by Billy Rice's minstrels a few years ago, the first few lines of which were: I was born in Jersey City In Texas, In the South And that's the very reason Why my voice is in my mouth.