My dad must have sung the Lomax/Seeger version.

Not yet noted here: the song as performed by Texas Gladden (with some harmonizing by Hobart Smith) track 31 on "Texas Gladden, Ballad Legacy" (Rounder 11661-1800-2, from recordings by Alan Lomax).

Like many of the tracks on this album, this seems like a fragment of a song. I wonder whether that's because that's all she recalled of the song, or whether it's an artifact of limited time, tape, or interest of Lomax's.

The album notes and and transcription are by John Cohen (as far as I can tell). I have put in italics the words as sung where they vary from the transcription, and the transcription words I've replaced in brackets after the line. Not sure why the "transcription" should be incorrect. Except for the stuck/struck difference, the differences are obvious.

Wild and Reckless Hobo

Wild and reckless hobo had left his happy home,
Started on a western trip and by himself alone.
On his western trip alone,
he thought he'd have some fun,
Sit down at the station, and this is what he sung.

"Sitting on a depot platform smoking a cheap cigar,   [big]
Waiting for a freight train to catch an empty car.
They put me off at Danville, boys.
Got struck on a Danville girl,   [stuck]
Bet your life, she's out of sight,
she wore those Danville curls.

"She wore her hat on the back of her head,   [neck]
as high-tone ladies do. [A high-toned lady, too.]
But if that train pulls through this town,   [this]
I'll bid that girl adieu."

~ Becky in Long Beach