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Mance Lipscomb recorded his "One Thin Dime" in 1960Also, check out his version titled as "Out and Down"
Mama don?t treat your daughter mean Mama don?t treat your daughter mean Mama don?t treat your daughter mean That?s the meanest woman a man most ever seenYou want your friend to be bad like Jesse JamesYou want your friend to be bad like Jesse JamesYou want your friend to be bad like Jesse JamesGet two six-shooters, highway some passenger train
Oh mama, please don't treat your daughter meanJust because she wouldn't marry low-down Jesse James
One that I particularly love is Skip James' version
. It was actually cobbled together by Woody Guthrie out of One Dime and a chorus he probably borrowed from Leadbelly.
Sonny's lyrics reveal indebtedness to Leadbelly, with the tag line 'Hey, hey, hey, hey'.https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=11366.msg100326#msg100326
I'm All Out And Down is related to the recording Lovin' Babe made in 1929 by Ragtime Texas? (Henry Thomas)