The Internet Archive also has this somewhat different version:


NEW GOING DOWN SLOW
As recorded by Poor Boy on Black & White 106-A, 1945.

Somebody write my mother; tell her the conditions I’m in. (2x)
Tell her I believe to my soul my heart is full of sin.

I was once a bad fellow, but I won’t be bad no mo’. (2x)
The conditions I’m in, people, I’m goin’ down slow.

But I’ve had my fun if I never get well. (2x)
The one knows my condition, the only one who can tell.

Some people thinks I’m dead, but I’m still goin’ down slow. (2x)
I may be here a long time; the good Lord only knows.