Some more lyrics, but none that seem to match the 4th verse of the Katherine Handy recording, from The HEPTUNE CLASSICAL JAZZ and BLUES LYRICS Page:

Transcribed from Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys, recorded March 27, 1931.
From Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys, 1925-1935; The Chronogical Classics 783.

Such tragic times we never saw,
That's why we have proficient law,
In everything we find a flaw,
Even love, oh, love, oh, loveless love.

Transcribed from the Dixieland Jazz Group of NBC's Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, from vocals by Lena Horne, recorded June 23, 1941.
From Lena Horne, L'Art Vocal, vol. 11. La Selection1935-1941; DK 025.

Love, oh love, oh, careless love,
You fly right to my head like wine,
You've wrecked the life of many a gal,
And you nearly wrecked this life of mine.

If I was a little bird,
I would fly from tree to tree;
I'd build my nest up in the air,
Where the bad boys couldn't bother me.

Now I wear my apron high,
Now I wear my apron high,
Now I wear my apron high,
And he never, never passes by.

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But the lyrics aren't his:

From a listing of Handy's works, as Reprinted from Father Of The Blues, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1957 at University of Northern Alabama Special Collections:
1921   Loveless Love
       Aunt Hagar's Children Blues (instrumental; 1922; words by J. Tim Brymn)

What you want is to find the sheet music:

Handy, W.C. "Loveless Love," New York: Handy Brothers Music Company, Inc., 1929.

I'm not able to spot it yet in digitized form, just references to it.

~ Becky in Tucson