Sorry Murray, I don't know about the Bessie Smith number, but I'm pretty sure you've misheard the lyric in Patton's Revenue Man Blues. I believe he sings something like this:

Go safe sweet home through, Lord, that shiny star,
(Aw sho')
I say, safe sweet home through that shining star,
(She don't need no tellin's, daddy, aw sho')
She don't need no tellin', daddy will take you in his car.

Brian