I think this is part of a family of related songs, some of them called IT TAKES A WORRIED MAN or WORRIED MAN BLUES.

From Our Singing Country by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Harold William Thompson (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941), page 372:


I'M A STRANGER HERE

1. Hitch up my buggy, saddle up my black mare,
Hitch up my buggy, saddle up my black mare,
Goin' to find me a fairy in this world somewhere.

CHORUS: I'm a stranger here; I'm a stranger ev'rywhere,
I would go home but, honey, I'm a stranger there.

2. I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long,
I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long,
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.

3. Baby caught that Katy; she left me a mule to ride,
Baby caught that Katy; she left me a mule to ride,
When the train pulled out that mule laid down and died.

4. Looked down that road as far as I could see,
Looked down that road as far as I could see,
And a little bitty hand kept a-wavin' back at me.

5. When you get a woman, man, you better get you two,
When you get a woman, boy, you better get you two,
'Cause you never can tell what a woman goin' to do.

6. I'm goin' back home, I'm goin' to settle down,
I'm goin' back home, Lord, I'm goin' to settle down,
'Cause I ain't no dog and I won't be dogged around.


[Songs called I'M A STRANGER HERE have been recorded by Blind Boy Fuller, Frank Hamilton (where have I heard that name?), Richie Havens, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Tampa Red, Doc Watson, Mac Wiseman, and several others—but I don't guarantee that they all had the same lyrics.]