Yes, in fact too much haste. Had I been a little more leisurely I might have noticed that "I like / love that shortnin'" etc. shows up in the earliest versions, like Talley.

Seems to indicate the stage-pattery "Mammy's little baby" version that became standard in 1940s songbooks -- along with analogous transformations of tradition-into-pop like "I got a gal an' you got none, Little Liza Jane" -- did not rule exclusively earlier.

Bob