Unfortunately, I do not have a recording of this and therefore I do not know how much, if anything, is missing. However, here is what Paul Oliver gives of Jim Jackson's version of 'Long Gone'. He begins with stanzas close to Handy/Smith, but then heads off with lyrics that seem to have been incorporated from another song:

LONG GONE

Now you've heard the story 'bout Long John Green
Bold bank robber from Bowling Green
They put him in jail and he stayed 30 days
Late last night he made his getaway

He's long gone, from old Kentucky
He's long gone, wasn't he lucky
He's long gone - what I mean
He's long gone from Bowling Green (repeats chorus)

They sent for the high sheriff to bring him back
Went and put the police hounds on his track
The doggone police hounds lost his scent
And nobody knows where Long John went

Chorus

I ain't gonna tell ya how I got here
But I got here just the same
If you see him running the first five miles
You'd swore he wasn't lame
He'd stop in the woods, catch his wind
Heard a stick crackin' and he lit out again
I ain't gonna tell you how I got here
But I got here just the same

Source: transcription [from pp 68-69 in Paul Oliver 'Songsters & Saints' Cambridge Uni Press] of Jim Jackson 'Long Gone' recorded on 7 September 1928 in Memphis and issued as Victor V38531.

Jim Jackson was not much of a singer or guitarist, but had a hit with 'Kansas City Blues' in 1927. He too was a medicine show performer and more of a songster than bluesman, with material from a variety of sources. His hymn parody, 'I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop' is little gem.

--Stewie.