This song was written by Albert W. Noll in 1899, originally titled "Doan Ye Cry Ma Honey", a song written by a white man in "black dialect". I managed to find the sheet music on the University of Mississippi web site, thanks to help from a ballad listserv I subscribe to. It was, apparently, written for a quartet of either men's, women's or mixed voices.

The song is full of what would, in this era, be considered "politically incorrect" language, but one must take into consideration the era in which it was written. I don't know if this was a vaudeville piece or what, but the back cover of the music I downloaded says, "Ebony Songs by Caleb Lacy", and listed are the following songs:

Nevah min', Miss Lucy
My Rose
I'll be Dar to Meet Yo'
Seen My Lady Home Las' Night
Git Up, Suke - Go 'Long!

These songs were written for piano accompaniment, also guitar, mandolin and banjo - ad libitum. The publisher is listed as the "Oliver Ditson Company" in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, London, Chicago.

I guess doing "black songs" in "dialect" was a favorite entertainment pastime back in those days, probably done for vaudeville performances.

~Sally in Ohio