This was quoted in a novel, The Kidnapped Millionaires: A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics by Frederick Upham Adams (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1901), page 56:

There was an old geezer and he had a wooden leg;
He had no tobacco, no tobacco could he beg.
Another old geezer was as cunning as a fox,
And he always had tobacco in his old tobacco box;
Yes, he always had tobacco in his old tobacco box.

Says Geezer number one, "Will you give me a chew?"
Says Geezer number two, "I'll be damned if I do;
Go save up your nickels, and save up your rocks,
And you'll always have tobacco in your old tobacco box;
Yes, and you'll always have tobacco in your old tobacco box."