Careless Love- Collected Randolph from Mr. J.E. Webster Groves, Missouri on April 8, 1948. He learned it about 1880:

What will Mammy say to me
What will Mammy say to me
What will Mammy say to me
When I go home with a big bell-ee?

New Orleans jazz musician Buddy Bolden who played this song in the 1890s. One set of Bolden's lyrics were communicated by Susie Farr:

Ain't it hard to love another woman's man,
Ain't it hard to love another woman's man,
You can't get him when you want him,
You have to catch him when you can.

W.C. Handy said Careless Love was the first blues song, and his melody predtaes 1892:

Love, oh love, oh careless love, (3X)
Oh look what carelss love has done.

Richie