Liner notes are available at Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/folkways/FW02418.pdf

Here are the notes. Lyrics are the same Mick posted, but Mick did a better job of laying them out.


Folkways Notes: "Hicarmichael" is a ballad with a rather strange text and strong moral position. "It will not do to take a life of anyone for their life you can not give." There is a peculiar juxtaposition of the descriptive line, "And as' he proceeded to read it the nigger shot him dead", and the very moral line (with a sense that all men are equal), "And money will not pay your fees when you're called before your god".
Published versions of this song have been impossible to locate, and that, along with an inspection of the text, leads me to believe the song is completely local.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TjbnEYTIlg (may not play outside the U.S.)