From The Music Box

Viola Lee Blues -- Cannon's Jug Stompers

Cannon's Jug Stompers actually recorded the song twice, and both are available on an outstanding two-disc collection of the complete works of Gus Cannon and Noah Lewis (Document, 1990). The two differ in one very significant way. The "I wrote a letter, mailed it in the…" verse is sung only on the second, unreleased take. The first, slightly longer take, replaces that verse with this one:

Fix my supper Mama, let me go to her
Let me go to bed indeed Lord
Fix my supper, let me go to bed
I been drinking white lightning, it's gone to my head