On Saturday, November 20, 1999 at 8:00:00 AM UTC, John C wrote:

It's lookin' like there've been several renditions of the song. I got
the Ruth Brown Blues on Broadway CD. It's a great performance, but
I'd swear I heard additional lyrics on the radio that I don't hear on
the CD. I could be wrong. In any event, I'm pretty happy to have
found Ruth's CD.

"Dirk Lockard" wrote:

CD-MOJO-301 1996 issue titled "The Copulatin Blues",
contains this song, performed by Georgia White and recorded
in May, 1936.

It's a long time since this was posted, but ... if you look on YouTube, you'll find that most of the performances are based on the Ruth Brown version. The Georgia White version is older, but - at east for me - is too simply melodic - it lacks verve
and innuendo. I remember hearing a Bessie Smith version many years ago. I still remember it, more or less, and that is the gold standard for me, but of course that is a matter of taste. The problem I have had is that I can't find her version anywhere!
She did, I think, have more verses.

There is a funny twist: Arlo Guthrie seems to have used the melody in his epic anti-war song "Alice's Restaurant".

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