Randolph's editor, Gershon Legman, was the collector of Jones's version.

The substance of the passage:

"In 1960, I supplied Alan Lomax with the oldest and best text of 'Frankie and Albert' ever collected (Omaha, Nebraska, 1908), from a Negro pianist and guitarist, Palmer Jones, whose main dates of activity were in Birmingham, Alabama, about 1904. Lomax printed this in his Folk Songs of North America (1960) pp. 557-58 and 569-70 - with over thirty editorial improvements, including changing the .41 gun to a .44; and also expurgating mild profanity, such as 'you faithless son of a bitch,' into long dashes with an *extra stanza* added at the end by Lomax from some other, unknown source, and with music not connected or collected with the text. Lomax also amusingly referred to the source of the original hand-written manuscript I supplied him as 'My present informant, Palmer Jones,' though Jones had been dead since 1928 when I was eleven years old, and Lomax not much older. ...

"I do feel that I should at least make up here for his one worst blunder: the omission of the single and rather crucial stanza 8, containing all the very mild sexual action in the song, as differentiated from the murder details, *none* of which were omitted:

"Then Frankie went down to the corner,
Didn't mean no harm,
Looked right up in a furnished room,
Saw her Albert in Alice's arms.
He was her man, he was doing her wrong."

Clearly Legman had not gotten the manuscript from Jones himself.