The Wills version takes its first, second, and last stanzas quite directly from "The Parlor is a Pleasant Place to Sit on Sunday Night," which sounds to me like a late 19th century pop song. Somewhere I still have the 78 rpm of this by Hugh Cross (4/3/1927, mx143934-2, released on Co 15182-D). I don't know of any other oldtime recordings but there may have been some.

The "parlor" song seems to be the original home of the lyrics, since there are additional verses not used in the Wills record and the song tells a little story about courting in the parlor. The original is much slower and I think in 3/4 time (haven't heard it in many many years); it does not have the clipped lyrics found in the "Ida Red" version. The first stanza goes (more or less):

The light is in the parlor, the fire is on the grate, The clock upon the mantle ticks out it's getting late, The curtains on the window are made of snowy white, The parlor is a pleasant place to sit on Sunday night.

Interestingly, the Randolph text, though garbled, also begins with a variation of the "lights in the parlor" stanza. I wonder if this is traceable to the Wills performance (record or radio), or if the "parlor" lyrics had been allied to "Ida Red" prior to the Wills recording. I've never heard them in any southeastern version that did not derive directly from Wills, but the latter is the only southwestern version I've ever heard.