In addition to the songs, the comments by Randolph are worth the price of admission (about $90 at present).
In his discussion of Frankie and Johnny, Randolph says, "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)... under the abbreviated title -Frankie- to get rid of the unfashionable Albert- 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 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,' although Jones had been dead since 1928, when I was eleven years old and Lomax not much older."