Kelly Harrell made a recording in 1927 (released 1928):
MY WIFE, SHE HAS GONE AND LEFT ME
My wife she's gone and left me Out in this wide world alone With happiness and gladness she left me She left a doggone good home I wrote her a letter last Tuesday I sealed it with a kiss The answer came back this morning And what it said was this
When the groceman puts sand in the sugar And the milkman makes milk out of chalk When the boys stay at home with their mothers And the girls forget how to talk Now after the ballgame is over And the railroad runs under the sea When the man in the moon comes down in a balloon My darling I'll come back to thee
I went to see her this evening She was standing in the hall She beat me, she banged me, she swiped me She hit me with a mall I asked her to go back home with me She hit me on my head I told her I'd do all the cooking But this is what she said
When the groceman puts sand in the sugar And the milkman makes milk out of chalk When the boys stay at home with their mothers And the girls forget how to talk Now after the ballgame is over And the railroad runs under the sea When the man in the moon comes down in a balloon My darling I'll come back to thee.