Glad you posted this, Dick, Patrick sent it to me too & it was a revelation that it was older than Charlie Poole.
Bob Davenport's words can be heard on the LP he did with the wonderful Boldon Banjo Band- his words are the ones I use & very much his own adaptation of Charlie Poole's.
Shouldn't be any surprise that he would rewrite words of old songs- several examples on his 'Red-Haired Lad' CD & good for him....