While looking for some other information online:

Done Laid Around
In 1961, Pete Seeger reported that he "...first learned 'Done Laid Around' from Larry Ehrlich of Chicago, who learned it from Paul Clayton, who learned it from Arthur Kyle Davis of the University of Virginia, who got it from a small booklet, published by a now deceased French professor. His original sources, African American folk singers of Virginia, were not listed."

Seeger recorded "Done Laid Around" as "Gotta Travel On" in the 1950s with the popular folk-singing quartet, The Weavers. It was a hit record for them and became one of their many signature pieces.

Source: "Sing Out!" Magazine.

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I suppose this only applies to this thread if Seeger did not acknowledge his sources for this song.

https://www.oldtownschool.org/resources/songnotes/songnotes_D.html

Recordings on file by: Cisco Houston, The Weavers