Two takes for this blues by Frank Stokes.

DOWNTOWN BLUES
(rec. Memphis, 1 Feb. 1928)

(1) record number: (41822-1) Vi-21272 BC-5

1 Hey listen mama : the world is done gone away
2 I'm got a bad-luck deal : give me trouble every day
3 And I'm going I'm going : pin up black tape on your door
4 Tell your man ain't dead : just ain't coming to your house no more
5 And I'm going downtown : going to stay around there till dark
6 I don't want no trouble : don't want you to drive off
7 Now when you lay down at night : lit out early try to take your rest
8 You'll get a couple phone calls : wake up and try to do your best
9 I'm got a gal in the country : I'm got two that stays in town
10 Reason I can fill it so careful : because nar' of them don't throw me down

(2) record number: (41822-2) Vi unissued His HLP-31

1 Hey listen mama : the world is done gone away
2 I got a bad-luck deal : give me trouble every day
3 And I'm going I'm going : pin up black crepe on your door
4 Tell your man ain't dead : just ain't coming to your house no more
5 And I'm going downtown : going to stay around there till dawn
6 And I don't want no trouble : don't want you to drive me home
7 Now when you lay down at night : lit out early try to take your rest
8 You'll get a couple phone calls : wake up and try to do your best
9 I got a gal in the country : got two that stays in town
10 The reason I can *fill it* so careful : because man don't know me there

*...*: questionable passage(s)

(From: Michael Taft, Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, Garland, 1983, pp. 257-258)

~Masato