Roger,

I can't decipher the particular words either. In his 1934 'Old Original Kokomo Blues', which shares the 'baby don't you want to go' bit in the McDowell song, Kokomo Arnold seems to sing something 'light city' rather than something 'night city'. Sounds like 'leven light or eleven light city. Bonnie Raitt sings the same in her version mentioned above that is coupled with 'Few of your lines' - she certainly doesn't sing 'bright lights' there, but may well do so in another version. Is it a sexual reference or, less likely, even a real place?

Whatever, my ears hear the last verse of Fred's version a little differently from what Roger has posted. The version I have in on Arhoolie 'Mississippi Delta Blues':

Well I ain't never loved you Hope I never will 'Cos where you got lovin' why