Covers:

1924:

Bethel Jubilee Quartet [for Victor]

1927:

Fiddlin' John Carson [as It's A Shame To Whip Your Wife On Sunday for Okeh; this title begged for parodies, which had been going on for years in both medicine and minstrel show circuit]

1948:

Lead Belly [as Ain't It A Shame To Go Fishin' On A Sunday; one of his Last Sessions and the source for Kurt Cobain]

1958:

New Lost City Ramblers [as It's A Shame To Beat Your Wife]

1962:

Pete Seeger [as Ain't It A Shame]

1977:

Albert Hash & The Whitetop Mountain Band [as Don't Whip Your Wife On Sunday]

1989:

Nirvana [as Ain't It A Shame on With The Lights Out box set ('04)]