Two versions from field recordings.

TRAVERLIN' SHOES

-1-
I got no, I got no,
I got no traverlin' shoes.
I got no, I got no,
Lord, I got no traverlin' shoes.

Well, you better get yo' traverlin' shoes,
Well, you better get yo' traverlin' shoes,
Well, you better get yo' traverlin' shoes,
Lord, you better get yo' traverlin' shoes.

-2-
Well, Death went over to dat Gambler's home,
Gambler come en go wid me,
Come en go wid me,
Come en go wid me.
Dat gambler said "I'm not willin' to go,
Caze I go no traverlin' shoes."

I got no, I got no, got no,
I got no traverlin' shoes.
Got no, got no, got no traverlin' shoes.

-3-
Well, Death went over to de preacher's home,
Preacher come en go wid me,
Come en go wid me,
Come en go wid me.
Dat preacher said, "I'm willin' to go,
Caze I go on my traverlin' shoes."
Got my, got my,
Got on my traverlin' shoes.

SOURCE: Olivia and Jack Solomon, "Honey in the Rock": The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs from Sumter County, Alabama (Mercer University Press, 1991, p. 69; text only)

TRAVELING SHOES

Death went out to the sinner's house,
Come and go with me.
Sinner cries out, I ain't ready to go,
I ain't got no travelin' shoes.
Got no travelin' shoes, got no travelin' shoes,
Sinner cried out, I ain't ready to go,
I ain't got no travelin' shoes.

SOURCE: Harold Courlander, Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. (Columbia University Press, 1963, p. 233; with music); Singer, Vera Hall Ward. Ethnic Folkways Library FE 4473.

Recordings are by: Golden Gate Quartet, Mitchell's Christian Singers, Selah Jubilee Singers, Stars of Faith, Flora Molton, Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock.

~Masato