"The Peg Leg Howell song sounds like a derivative of Betty and Dupree." Frank DuPre stole the diamond ring for Betty Andrews in 1921 when Howell was 33 years old.

Howell:

"I laid in jail, back turned to the wall. (2x)
There's a Georgia woman was the cause of it all....

"I asked the judge what might be my fine. (2x)
Said the ... jailhouse deep down in the mine...."

Folk blues lyrics Howard Odum had collected by 1908:

"Yonder comes that lovin' man o' mine
Yonder comes that lovin' man o' mine
Yonder comes that lovin' man o' mine
Comin' to pay his baby's fine

Well, I begged the jedge to low' my baby's fine
Well, I begged the jedge to low' my baby's fine
Well, I begged the jedge to low' my baby's fine
Said de jedge done fine her, clerk done wrote it down....

So she laid in jail back to de wall
So she laid in jail back to de wall
So she laid in jail back to de wall
Dis brown-skin man cause of it all...."

"Goin' take my pick an' shovel -- goin' deep down in mine
Goin' take my pick an' shovel -- goin' deep down in mine
Goin' take my pick an' shovel -- goin' deep down in mine
I'm goin' where de sun -- don't never shine"

Odum also included a "Got up in the mornin', couldn't keep from cryin'," so all this stuff should be compared to the lyrics of "Moanin' The Blues" by Allen Shaw, "No No Blues" by Willie Baker, and "Judge Harsh Blues" by Furry Lewis.