Hello! It has been a busy last year for me with work/living concerns, and that means hard to find the time for this research. But I am working back into a research mode for the next several weeks, and in the process of rediscovering references I had stowed away. Here's one.

1903        "Old Corn-husking Song." _The Wichita Daily Eagle_. 1 December: 7.

The Wichita Daily Eagle for 1 Dec., 1903 which looks to have reproduced a Baltimore Sun article, entitled "Old Corn-husking Song." The anonymous author claims this song was "in vogue in Frederick county, Maryland seventy-years ago." That would make 1833 - which seems impossible to verify. Yet, these songs ended with Emancipation, so 1830s-50s would make sense.

The text of the song follows. The solo parts are improvisational in style. Aside from the first and last couplet, I've omitted the refrains that come after each line.
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The Jack Snipe said unto the Crane,
    Whiskey Johnnie;
I wish de Lord there would come rain.
    Oh, Hilo!
The Wild Goose said unto the Swan,
The coming winter will be sharp and long,
They say old master's sick again,
He suffers many an ache and pain,
When my old master's dead and gone,
This old nigger will stop husking corn,
Oh, my master's good to me,
And when he dies he'll set me free,
We've possum fat and taters, too,
Good enough for me and you,
If you have cider good and strong,
I'll be to see you before very long,
The watermelons now in their height,
I stol'd two out de patch last night,
The nigger who finds the most red corn,
Will be de next leader 'sho as he's born,
The corn is husked, the supper is o'er,
And now we'll pull the other shore,
And all you niggers start tonight,
So you'll get home before daylight,
And now my friends I'll bid you all adieu,
I've done the best I could for you,
And remember that we niggers all,
Will be on hand next fall,
And now, my friend, again good night,
We husked that corn good and all right,
We stripped the husk off like a shirt,
    Whiskey Johnnie,
And left no silk that would ever hurt,
    Oh, Hilo!
        —Old Timer, in Baltimore Sun.
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"Hilo" is familiar in this type of song. As for "Whiskey Johnnie": If it didn't originate there, how do you suppose it got there? In a sailor context, I believe the early reference for [WHISKEY JOHNNY] is Clark 1867.