"If Ever I Cease To Love" Redux

Last year, I posted something about the Rex's Mardi Gras theme song, "If I Ever Cease To Love". When I did this I didn't know the genesis of the song and that it has a life of its own, i.e. verses are spontaneously added. I've asked several New Orleanians for help on this vital topic, but no help to date. They have a few other important things to do. It's strange that this search has been one of the most popular on my blog. I had to confess to my millions of readers that I couldn't be of any further help in their quest. However, just the other day I got an e-mail from a Kid Dutch who asked if I was still searching for the elusive lyrics. I replied yes. He sent me what you see below and asked what I had already uncovered. I told him that the only verse I knew of was one of the ones that he had sent me. So, here ya go:

If Ever I Cease To Love -  comic song  by George Leybourne circa 1870, Published by White, Smith & Perry, Boston, MA

This particular set of lyrics is from a 1946 "Souvenir Edition"  published by  Dave Frank, New Orleans.
Authorship (improperly) attributed to "Rex Knarf" [franK backwards] and "Re' Kel"

Verse 1:
In a house, in a square, in a quadrant,
In a street, in a lane, in a road.
Turn to the left, on the right hand,
you see my true love's abode.
I go there a courting,
and cooing to my love like a dove,
And swearing on my bend-ed knee
If ever I cease to love,
May sheepsheads grow on apple trees,
If ever I cease to love.

Chorus 1:
If ever I cease to love,
If ever I cease to love
May the moon be turned to green cream cheese,
If ever I cease to love

Verse 2:
She can sing, she can play on the piano,
She can jump, she can dance, she can run.

For she's a wonderful girlie,
She's all of them rolled into one.
I adore her beauty, she's like an angel dropped from above

May the fish get legs, and the cows lay eggs,

If ever I cease to love,

Chorus 2

If I ever cease to love,

If I ever cease to love,

May we all turn into cats and dogs,

If I ever cease to love