"The original" quite possibly isn't in English or with anything like the same meaning. It's used as a dance song by the Hungarians of Transylvania, called ""Golya, golya" (Stork, stork), for a processional dance rather like the Gay Gordons. I'm told the same tune is used the same way all over Central Europe, and isn't thought of as having any American associations, so my guess is it started there and was taken to the US by emigrants.

Given that competing sets of words are already in wide use, I doubt you'll find a translation of the American hymn being sung much in that part of the world.