The Internet Archive also has a recording by Billy Jones (tenor) & Ernest Hare (bass), who were also known as The Happiness Boys. (Click to play.) As they often did, they turned the song into a dialogue. I have indicated their voices as (t) and (b) respectively. I have omitted the spoken "patter":


HOW'S YOUR FOLKS AND MY FOLKS?
As sung by Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (1925)

VERSE: (b) I'm a Dixie rollin' stone,
Roamin' 'round all alone.
(t) You've learned a lot, but what have you got?
(b) Nothin' worth callin' my own.
I hear that you returned from home today.
(t) I often wonder why you went away.

CHORUS: (b) How's your folks and my folks down in Norfolk town?
(t) Not one word have they heard since you've been knockin' around.
(b) How's dear old dad and mother and all the family?
How's little sis and brother? Do they ever talk about me?
(t) Your old gal, your old pal, the one you left behind—
Now I found you're always on her mind.
(b) I'm just an old black sheep and I'll get no sleep
Till I'm Virginia bound,
(both) To your folks and my folks down in Norfolk town.

[DIFFERENT MELODY BEGINS:]
(b) I know when the L&N is leaving in the eve'ning,
  But it's bound for Louisville;
And I know the B&O was bound to go to Baltimo',
  And down to Jacksonville;
And they say that ev'ry day the Santa Fe is on its way
  Out to the Golden Gate;
But those three don't worry me; the only place I want to be
  I might as well confess:
[RETURN TO THE MELODY OF THE CHORUS:]
(both) I'm just an old black sheep and I'll get no sleep
Till I'm Virginia bound.
To your folks and my folks down in Norfolk town.


[* Starting here, Hare (b) sings the lyrics shown above while Jones (t) softly sings the chorus of CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY as counterpoint:

["Carry me back to old Virginny,
There's where the cotton and the corn and 'tatoes grow,
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There's where...."

[Jones sings something different from the original "darkie" dialect in the last line, but I wasn't able to make out what it was.]