Niles said he got the idea from a Negro ditch-digger named Objerall Jacket. "He repeatedly sang "Go 'way from my window, go 'way from my door." The song evolved from that. First sung in 1930.
Nile's statement suggests that there may have been an antecedent. He heard the lines in 1908.
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