Good question. He died in 1953. The song was being sung on that date.
I took an album date, which was wrong. Sorry about that.

His discography says-
Format 78, MGM Cat. No. 10271, Release year 1948
21/04/1947 (recording date)
Hank Williams, Tommy Jackson, Dale "Smokey" Lohman, Zeke Turner, Louis Innis, Bronson "Brownie" Reynolds.

Recorded on the same date, "Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)"


http://www.hankwilliamsdiscography.com