Here's Charlie Poole's version as transcribed by Kinney Rorrer "Life and Songs of Charlie Poole." Rorrer noted that the song was written as a Broadway show tune in 1909 by Mat Marshall and Shelton Brooks. The original song had 5 verses, but Poole used only the last two. Poole's tune also differs somewhat from the original.

YOU AIN'T TALKIN' TO ME
As recorded by Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers

I went up to a lady's house to bum a bite to eat.
She fed me on some pork and beans and pie. I called it sweet.
She says, "Now, Bill, I sure did feed you good.
Would you walk out in my backyard and chop a stick of wood?"

CHORUS: You ain't talkin' to me. No, you ain't a-talkin' to me.
I may be crazy and all like that, but I've got good sense, you see.
You ain't talkin' to me. No, you ain't a-talkin' to me.
You fed me good but I can't cut wood, and you ain't a-talkin' to me.

(Repeat above chorus)

Now, me and my wife has ups and downs all through our married life.
Said to me one day, "Bill, let's stop these scars and strife."
Then went out upon the lake one evening just about dusk,
Says, "Now We'll drown ourselves. No one to grieve for us."

CHORUS: You ain't a-talkin' to me. No, you ain't a-talkin' to me.
I may be crazy and all like that, but I got good sense, you see.
You ain't a-talkin' to me. No, you ain't a-talkin' to me.
When the lake goes dry, it's time to die, and you ain't a-talkin' to me.

(Repeat above chorus.)

Source: Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers "You Ain't Talkin' to Me" Co 15193-D, recorded 25 July 1927 in New York. Reissued on Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers "Old Time Song" County CO-CD-3501.

PS. I couldn't find the original song at the Levy site, but it could be at one of the other sheet music sites.

--Stewie.