My grandmother, her mother sang that tune to her, she sang it to my mother, my mother sang it to me and I sang it to my daughter. It was used as a lullaby and the lyrics were only to one of the two songs refered to. I can tell you that this version came before the updated version of the 1930's

It went something like this:

There's an old fashion maid in the garden
With her hat and her old fashion beau
There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor
Spinning dreams of a long long ago

Sometimes It seems
I can hear her in the twilight
Softly singing the tunes of long ago

There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor
With a maid and her old fashion beau.
There's an old spinning wheel in the parlor
Spinning dreams of a long long ago

Sometimes It seems
I can hear her in the twilight
Softly singing the tunes of long ago

There's an old fashion maid in the parlor
With her hat and an old fashion Bow.
There's an old fashion maid in the parlor
Spinning her dreams from long long ago.


It was about a woman who had loved a slave boy and he was taken from her for that reason.