I have 4 or 5 calypso versions of this song. Also, Jimmy Soul's R/B version, "If You Want to be Happy", on a one-hit wonder CD.

Sir Lancelot - Two versions recorded about 1942 and '46
In the style of the Roaring Lion (Raphael de Leon) in duet w/ ?, -
    Ugly Woman/Trouble and Misery
Unknown - on a 10" LP from 1954
The Lion (RdL) - from 1945 & 1958

also (but not in my collection)
The Charmer - (Louis Walcott, later Farrakan) about 1953
Robert Mitchum - 1958 as 'From a Logical Point of View'==I would really like this LP. And it is that Robert Mitchum of cinema

I have a lot of Belafonte, but nothing with that song, so TJin San Diego find it for me. I hope you're not thinking of ' Mama, Look a Boo Boo."