In the 40's, Burl Ives used this as a signature tune; he billed himself as The Wayfaring Stranger.Back then, he had a radio show, and some folk purists used to sing:

I'm just a radio folksinger
I'll keep on singing till I die.
I'm in a rut, and there I'll linger
Forever bleating The Blue Tail Fly
I'll sing the same old tired folksongs
Though list'ners sigh and cry and groan
I'll do the same old stuff for Philco
Till fatter contracts do come along.

Philco was the sponsor; sometimes there was a word
substitution for "stuff"