The song never lost popularity in North America. Well-known as a fiddle piece from at least the 1880s and well-recorded in the 1920s by Reneau, Macon and others long before the swing era. Collected in Nebraska and elsewhere in 1914-1920 (JAFL 27, 33, Pound (Nebraska) Randolph (Ozarks). Temperance songs used the tune (as well as a few bawdy verses).
See Lomax; Randolph, Ozark Folksongs # 408, "The Little Brown Jug;" and Bluegrass Messengers for partial data. Little Brown Jug