Not an original; it was also, apparantly, in the repertoires of Horton Barker (Virginia) and George "Pop" Maynard (Sussex), and I'm told there are broadside copies.  I feel sure that there was a discussion of the song (as Blue-Haired Boy ?) on one of the newsgroups around a year ago, but I can't find it in the archives.  Maynard's version (I think it's his; I only have the first verse) began:

Oh he's gone for evermore
Has our charming blue-haired boy
We shall never see our cross-eyed pet again
Like a dream he passed away
On the ninety-third of May
He never died so suddenly before.

I'd guess at a Music Hall origin.

Malcolm