"Just Bummin' Around" was a hit song for Jimmy Dean as "Bumming Around" in 1952 reached No.
Graves, who also recorded the tune, is quoted as saying that he took lyrics from a rodeo song he had written when he was a rodeo rider, including the lines free as a breeze, I do as I please, nothing to lose and not even the blues, and added them into "Just Bummin' Around."
Graves also said he pulled the line "I got an old slouch hat" from an Ernest Tubb song, "Blue Eyed Elaine."
[1] The song was later recorded by American singer Dean Martin in 1965 and included as the B side of his single Houston.
[2] Perry Como recorded the song in 1965[3] but it was not released until it was included in the compilation CD set Yesterday and Today in 1993.