Mance Lipscomb's live performance of DOWNTOWN BLUES is on the Clifton Chenier/Mance Lipscomb/Lightning Hopkins album "Live! at the 1966 Berkeley Blues Festival," Arhoolie CD #484, 2000.

I transcribed this from a sound sample at Barnes & Noble :

I went downtown this morning, had a talk with the judge. (2x)
I beat my woman, judge, just like something I (heard?)

I think "having a talk with the judge" is a popular euphemism for going to trial.