There's Someone A-Waiting for Me (There's Somebody Waiting For Me) is from an unknown parlor song that Meade says is pre-1861. It was collected by Randolph from back in the 1890s:

http://books.google.com/books?id=g3JtLNe3nroC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA217&dq=THERE%27S+SOMEbody+WAITING+FOR+ME&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html

This should not be confused with the Von Tilzer song by the same title from 1902. I'll look at this again.

THERE'S SOMEONE WAITING FOR ME- Carter family

All the people of today, they are going far away
To the mountains, the lakes, or the sea
There's a little spot out west that I always loved the best
And there's someone a-waiting for me

    She'll be happy (She'll be happy)
    She'll be free (She'll be free
    When she wanders alone with me
    It'll be getting quite late
    When I meet her at the gate
    And there's someone a-waiting for me
    Yodel-ay-ee, oh-ah-lee-oh-lay-ee
    Ah-lee-oh-lay-ee, oh-ah-lay
    [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK]

There's birds in every tree and they sing among the breeze
But there's none so happy as me
I am going out west and there I'll do my best
To build a little home for you and me

    She'll be happy (She'll be happy)
    She'll be free (She'll be free
    When she wanders alone with me
    It'll be getting quite late
    When I meet her at the gate
    And there's someone a-waiting for me
    Yodel-ay-ee, oh-ah-lee-oh-lay-ee
    Ah-lee-oh-lay-ee, oh-ah-lay
    [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK]

Oh, the birds that fly above singing dear songs of love
O'er the meadows, the valleys so deep
Their voices so sweet that they sing me to sleep
For I know my darling will not weep

    She'll be happy (She'll be happy)
    She'll be free (She'll be free
    When she wanders alone with me
    It'll be getting quite late
    When I meet her at the gate
    And there's someone a-waiting for me
    Yodel-ay-ee, oh-ah-lee-oh-lay-ee
    Ah-lee-oh-lay-ee, oh-ah-lay
    [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK]