Can't help feeling we are getting a bit fixed on the drinking and leaving out the sex.. I feel the sense is "have a nice time with your lady and leave the hard liquor alone" or somnething like that.It might be instructive to compare Leadbelly's verses with Charlie Patton's even more incomprehensible version of the same song"Elder Green is gone".That is also a ramble round the subject of preachers, sex, drink and general bad behaviour. Jelly Roll Morton did it too, but I dont think he sang any verse like the one we are looking at here.