This is now the oldest version I can find in print. (But note that the version I posted above, although printed later, was reported as having been sung much earlier.) I suspect it has been bowdlerized.

From Selected Songs Sung at Harvard College: From 1862 to 1866 (Cambridge [Mass.]: John Wison and Son, 1866), page 58:


SAM HALL.

My name it is Sam Hall,
Chimney-sweep, chimney-sweep
My name it is Sam Hall,
Chimney-sweep.
My name it is Sam Hall,
And I robs both great and small;
But now I pays for all,
Chimney-sweep.

Then the parson he will come,
Chimney-sweep, chimney-sweep;
Then the parson he will come,
Chimney-sweep.
Then the parson he will come,
With looks so bloody glum,
And talk o' what's to come,
Chimney-sweep.

Then the sheriff he'll come too,
Chimney-sweep, chimney sweep;
Then the sheriff he'll come too,
Chimney-sweep.
Then the sheriff he'll come too,
With all his bloody crew,
Their bloody work to do,
Chimney-sweep.

Then up the drop we'll go,
Chimney-sweep, chimney-sweep;
Then up the drop we'll go,
Chimney-sweep.
Then up the drop we'll go,
While the people all below
'Ill say, "Sam Hall, I told you so,"
Chimney-sweep.