Lyr Req: Bumming Around (Peter Graves)

Subject: Just a-Bummin' Around
From: Holly Tannen
Date: 13 May 97 - 02:28 AM

Yo! One of my readers has been looking for words to, and recordings of, a song that goes "I got an old straw hat, got my roll on my shoulder/I'm as free as the breeze, do what I please/Just a-bummin' around."

Can anyone help? I'll credit you in Sing Out! if you let me have your full name.

Holly

Subject: RE: Just a-Bummin' Around
From: Dale Rose
Date: 13 May 97 - 02:55 AM

T Texas Tyler, early 50s. I think Hank Locklin may have recorded it on 4 Star as well, but my memory is foggy on this. Check out a nice 30 second sound clip at Music Boulevard http://mb1.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/72771863506569_43_311480

Subject: Lyr Add: BUMMING AROUND (Peter Graves)
From: Gene Graham
Date: 13 May 97 - 12:45 PM

BUMMING AROUND - Recorded by T. Texas Tyler; Jimmy Dean and many others. Words and music by Pete Graves

Got an old slouch hat, got my roll on my shoulder
I'm as free as the breeze, and I'll do as I please
Just a-bummin' around.
I got a million friends, don't feel any older
I've got nothin' to lose, not even the blues
Just a-bummin' around..
Whenever worries start to botherin' me
I grab my coat, my old slouch hat
And hit the trail again, you see.
I ain't got a dime, don't care where I'm goin'
I'm as free as the breeze and I'll do as I please
Just a-bummin' around.


These lyrics and a couple of hundred more country/western/bluegrass/folk classics are
available in "Sing Your Heart Out Country Boy." Available at most book stores for $24.95.

Subject: RE: Just a-Bummin' Around
From: Dean Martin
Date: 13 May 97 - 12:52 PM

I sang this song and had a hit with it in the early sixties.

Subject: RE: Just a-Bummin' Around
From:
Date: 13 May 97 - 12:55 PM

not funny

Subject: RE: Just a-Bummin' Around
From:
Date: 14 May 97 - 02:41 AM

was too!