Leadbelly recorded in 1948. Either the c.1946 Seeger & Hays 'traditional' version for People's Song was extra spicy or the ignorance & irony, both Left & Right, is off the scale here...

“The SPEAKER. Under previous order of the House, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. DONDERO] is recognized for 30 minutes.
AMERICANS TAKE NOTICE-SCHOOL OF POLITICAL ACTION TECHNIQUES
Mr. DONDERO. Mr. Speaker, it is my purpose to expose what I believe to be a Communist fraud which is being perpetuated upon the people of the city of Washington through the guise of a so-called School of Political Action Techniques to be conducted by the National Citizens Political Action Committee…

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS-FACULTY AND ADVISERS
...Lee Hays and Peter Seeger are, respectively, executive director and director of People's Songs, Inc. This organization is described in the Worker of March 31, 1946, page 7, and February 24, 1946, page 7. On May 9, 1946, this organization gave a concert at the New York Town Hall, for which tickets were on sale at the Communist Workers Bookshop. The affair was advertised in the Daily Worker. People's Songs has composed, according to the Worker, songs "that sounded like an army wanting to march nowhere but to home,” including I Just Want To Go Home, and I Don't Want No More of Army Life, Gee, Ma, I Want To Go Home. These songs were sung to GI's. Lee Hays and Peter Seeger were members of the Almanac Singers, which composed anti American songs for the American Peace Mobilization, which picketed the White House in 1941.”
[Congressional Record, United States Congress, 1946]
Rep. George Anthony Dondero (1883–1968)