Another "Hop Joint" variant, from 1905 (from E.C. Perrow):

"I went daown to the depot to get my baby's trunk;
I stuck my head in the bar-room door, en I lef' that city drunk.
My darling baby, why don't yer come home?
I went daown on the Bowery with a forty-four in my han';
I said, 'Look out, you roustabout! I'm looking fer my man.'
My darlin' baby, why don't yer come home?
I come back up the Bowery with a slug u' meat in my han';
I flung it thoo a winder en I hit a country man.
My darlin' baby, why don't yer come home?"

Hurt's version has a "forty-four" and "looking for my man." Sid Hemphill used virtually the same refrain as above in "The Carrier Line," which he said was from about 1903. "Looking for my man" in both Hurt and Perrow has obvious ties to "Frankie Baker" from 1899.