Sorry Bojangles, I guess I should've mentoned that you can find this (or something like this) on Allen Lomaxs' CD collection Southern Journey / Prison Songs (vol. 1), this he got in 1947-48 while recording at Mississippi State Correctional Facility, Parchman Farm. It's out on Rounder as a 2 vol. set of prison work songs. Don't know about Odetta doing it. Barry