I am finally convinced of a lyric for the last line! For decades, I have carried around this song in my head, having listened to a friend's LP of Leadbelly singing it (many times), and I feel I can now state the whole of that performance, thanks to this last line in the Sing Out version quoted above.

This is the version I know:
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"On a monday I was arrested
On a tuesday I landed in jail
On a wednesday my trial was attested
On a thursday nobody wouldn't go my bail

[chos:
Yes, I'm all -- almost done X3
And I ain't gon' -- ring them -- yellow women' doorbells.]

Take these stripes, these stripes from 'round my shoulders
Take these chains, these chains from 'round my legs
Lord, these stripes, stripes sho' don't worry me,
But these chains, chains is bound to kill me dead.

[chos]

On a Sad'day, me 'n my baby went-a walkin',
On a Sunday, she locked me outdo's.
On a Monday, we was settin down a-talkin',
On a Tuesday, she had pawned all 'o my clothes!"

[chos]
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Wonderful to know the last line. I heard it as "ain't gon' --bring them -- yalla women no bail". But it just wouldn't wash. Now this line about "doorbell" fits my auditory memory perfectly, and makes elegant sense, in his great pictographic style, as in "yes'n I ain't goin' down to no Red Cross store!"

And, yes, it is indeed "yellow", the lightest skin color of his race. He did a song "my yellow oh my yellow oh my yellow gal" 4x

Also, cf. Ellington's "Black, Brown, & Beige"