Hedy West, on her BALLADS (Topic 12T163, 1967) sang a version in which the first line of each verse is repeated, followed by single second line ~~ so that the first 2 verses went

Went out last night and made my rounds
Went out last night and made my rounds
Met Little Sadie & I shot her down

Says I went back home and I went to bed
Says went back home and I went to bed
And I stuck my pistol right under my head

and so on, to a tune much related to the familiar Clarence Ashley one. Other variants I noted were that he fled to *Baltimore*, where he was challenged by the sheriff from *Louisville*. When challenged, replied "No sir, no sir, my name is Robert E Lee. If you got any papers don't read them to me". Fled, arrested, brought back ~~ abridged thereafter to final verse

Got up this morning, put on my boots {x2}
They going to send me down to Frankfurt to wear the stripéd suit.

A L Lloyd in the sleevenote wrote: "Hedy Weast sings & accompanies this song in the way she learnt from Hobart Bailey, an unemployed miner of the Cumberland Plateau of eastern Kentucky... The tune, pentatonic, three-lined with 'firth transposition', is one of the evergreen commonplaces of Southern mountaim melody, & close variants have been found for Died For Love and Pretty Polly.

~Michael~