The way it was given in the Sing Out reprint was like this:
On a Monday I was arrested
On a Tuesday they took me into that jail
On a Wednesday my trial was attested
On a Thursday nobody wopuldn't go my bail

And I'm almost done
And I'm almost done
And I'm almost done
And I ain't gon'
      ring them
Yaller women's do' bells. (door bells)

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders
I got chains, chains around my legs
Well them stripes, stripes they do not worry
But them chains, them chains is
About to kill me dead

You need to get a recording of Leadbelly and listen for when he puts more syllables in a line and simultaneously breaks the single beats down into double beats; like in Midnight Special: I knowed her by the apron, and the dress she wore. The next line he breaks the beats in half and it's: Umba-rella on her shoulder, piece o' paper in her hand.