It's by Furry Lewis and the lyrics are in this threadpart way down. Here's a sound clip of Furry's 1928 version from the Anthology of American Folk Music, which is where Von Schmidt and Rush learned it: SI-Folkways: Furry Lewisand his Yazoo compilationYazoo: Furry Lewis, In His prime, 1927-8Reference also to "Alabama Women" by Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell.
"First I rode the Central, then I rode the L&N(2x) Them Alabama women, they look like section men"