Here's the version from the Stoneman family album I borrowed from Art Rosenbaum 40 years ago so I don't have the particulars. I can't figure out the line "Fords in the gambling stand went by,/to carry little Sadie to the buryin ground." Let's just say that's not it, but Dylan might have had access to this version in doing things like "up stepped High Sheriff Thomas Hill," turning into "the sheriff from Thomasville." -JPB

LITTLE SADIE

Went out last night a making my round.
I met a little Sadie and I blowed her down.
I ran to the house and I went to bed
a forty-four smoker all under my head.

Got up this morning about half past nine
The cars and the hacks all formed in line
Fords in the gambling stand went by
To carry little Sadie to the burin ground

Standing on a corner a readin' a bill,
Up stepped high sheriff Thomas Hill,
Says, "Young man is you name Brown?
Remember the night you brought your Sadie down."

"Yes sir-ree, my name's Lee.
If you got any papers please read 'em to me"
Forty-four days, forty-four nights,
Forty-four years to wear the stars and the stripes.

Instrumental

Come all young men take my advice
Never take another poor girl's life
It'll cause you to weep, it will cause you to moan
It will cause you leave your home sweet home

The judge and the jury they both took the stand.
The judge held the papers all in his right hand.
Forty-four days, and a forty-four nights;
Forty-four years to wear the stars and the stripes.