The Library of Congress American Memory Collection field recording (made in Central Valley, California in 1938 by collector Sidney Robertson Cowell of Warde Ford singing JINNIE JENKINS) has been mentioned above, but nobody posted the lyrics.

JINNIE JENKINS

Will you wear the red, Jinnie Jenkins?
Oh, will you wear the red, my dear?
Oh, no, I won't wear the red
It's a color that will fade.

CHORUS: So buy me the tella-wella why-thee
So buy me the tella-wella double-rose
A dilla-villa soakey-doakey wifey into gear
Is the robe that I wear, Jinnie Jenkins.

Oh, will you wear the green, Jinnie Jenkins?
Oh, will you wear the green, my dear?
No, I won't wear the green
In it I'll never be seen. CHORUS

[You can hear Ford's performance on this page. The transcription came from this page.]