On further hints from Sandy, I checked my own furschluggener record collection fo Hinton songs.

Arrgh!

There it is on The Song of Men on Folkways. Called "I Just Don't Want to be Rich" Sam says he learned it from his uncle when Sam was a lad. That'd be in about 1850. (Sam doesn't read here so I can probably get away with that.)

And sings is pretty darn well, too

His uncle Bubba in Ada, Oklahoma had (probably) learned it from a phonograph record. At the time of the Folkways record, 1961, Sam had nothing further on it and hadn't heard ayone else sing it.