Somebody earlier in this thread said (or maybe just implied) that it was Lonnie Donegan who cleaned up a cocaine song and turned it into "Take a Drink on Me."

In fact, Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers cut "Take a Drink on Me" in New York City on July 25, 1927. Just about any Poole anthology features the selection, a variant of "Take a Whiff." I haven't heard Donegan's rendition, but I suspect he got it from Poole's.