I'm trying to find where an old-timey group from the late 1920's, the Georgia Yellow Hammers, got their version of the song "Kiss Me Quick and Go". The liner notes on County records says they found it in an early American songsheet. I can find a version of the song on Levy's sheet music site, dated 1856, and although the chorus is similar enough to see it is the same song, the verses are quite different (although somewhat the same in general theme).

The 1856 verses start out with "The other night while I was sparking Sweet Turlina Spray..." and the 1920's version starts, "The other night while we sat spooning, softly whispering and our love crooning..."

In the 1920's song there is a "big white English bulldog on my track..." which is one of the more memorable images of the later version. I don't know if the Yellow Hammers totally re-wrote the earlier song, or if it had changed before they found it and recorded it. Can anyone point me to any versions betweeen 1856 and circa 1926 ?