"An example of what I consider an early blues lyric is this published by Howard Odum in 1911:

'Got up in the morning, couldn't keep from crying
Got up in the morning, couldn't keep from crying
Got up in the morning, couldn't keep from crying
Thinking about that brown-skin man of mine....
So she laid in jail back to the wall
So she laid in jail back to the wall
So she laid in jail back to the wall
This brown-skin man cause of it all....'"

Compare Willie Baker (who was possibly born in 1893 according to Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc):
"I woke up this morning, my good gal was gone
I woke up this morning, my good gal was gone
Stood by my bedside, I hung my head and, hung my head and moan
I walked down the street, I couldn't be satisfied
I walked down the street, I couldn't be satisfied
I had the no-no blues, I couldn't keep from, I couldn't keep from crying...."

"I laid in jail backed turned to the wall" is in "Ball And Chain Blues" by Peg Leg Howell (born 1888), as is "judge, 'What might be my fine'" -- which ties in with e.g. Allen Shaw (born 1890), whose "Moanin' The Blues" includes "woke up this morning," "crying," and "judge, 'What should be my fine.'"