@edgarblythe,
I haven't even listened to the Killer yet (although I intend to, whether I have heard this version by him or not). But, that said, the way to sing that song, would, by definition, I figure, be the way Sticks McGhee (Brownie's brother, who wrote and first recorded it) sang it, ya know?
As I have mentioned in another thread, and as some here may not know, Sticks had to clean up his tune to record it. So he changed "************" to "spo dee o dee," ya know?