This appears to be a related song, not nearly as complete as the one sought or the ones in the link. It comes from "Negro Workaday Songs" by H W Odum and G B Johnson (1926, Univ North Carolina Press)(reprinted 1969, Negro Universities Press)

CHICKEN NEVER ROOST TOO HIGH FO' ME

Ol' mass's chicken
Live in the tree,
Chicken never roost
Too high fo' me.

Went out strollin'
See what I can see
Chicken never roost
Too high fo' me.

Ever since the Yankee
Set-er me free
Chicken never roost
Too high fo' me.

They think the old lady
An' me agree.
Chicken never roost
Too high fo' me.

I's in jail,
Not long till I'm free
Chicken never roost
Too high fo' me.

The authors say that "In a somewhat different version, this song was popular as a minstrel some twenty years ago". That would have been in the early 1900's. Could the version at the link be more like the minstrel song?

rich r