Artist: Sippie Wallace
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1924
Her last stanza is the first one in most of the cover versions.
Covers:
Casey Bill Weldon [as I'm A Stranger In Your Town]
Blind Boy Fuller [as I'm A Stranger Here]
Tampa Red [as New Strangers Blues, in '46 as Poor Stranger Blues and in '61 as I'm A Stranger Here]
Elmore James [as Stranger Blues]
Barbara Dane [idem]
Nomads [as Strangers Blues]
Sweet Honey In The Rock [as Stranger Blues]
Fred McMullem & Curley Weaver [as Poor Stranger Blues]
Julian Sas [as Stranger Blues]
Doc & Merle Watson [as I'm A Stranger Here]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)