Here's some source information from the Folk Music Index:

I Told the Stars About You [Me II-E89] - McFarland, Lester/Burton, Thos. Mac and Bob (Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner). Mac & Bob's WLS Book of Songs, Cole, fol (1931), p20

Also, I found a full audio version available for listening online, as recorded by the Bailey Brothers in the '4-s pr '50s (it doesn't speciify)
at the Roots Listening Room (search for "told the stars"). It's in the Juneberry CM201 group.

Cheers,
Claire