Jimmy Crack Corn lyrics

[Verse 1]
When I was young, I used to wait
My master sighed and hand him late
And passed the bottle when he got dry
And brushed away the blue tail fly

[Chorus]
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
My master's gone away

[Verse 2]
Then, after dinner he would sleep
A vigil eye would have to keep
And when he wanted to shut his eyes
He told me watch the blue tail fly

[Chorus]
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
My master's gone away

[Verse 3]
One day he rode around thе farm
The flies so numerous, thеy did swarm
One chanced to bite him on the thigh
The devil take the blue tail fly
[Chorus]
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
My master's gone away

[Verse 4]
The pony ran and jumped and pitch
He tumbled master in a ditch
He died the jury they wondered why
The verdict was the blue tail fly

[Chorus]
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
My master's gone away

[Verse 5]
They laid him 'neath the 'simmon tree
His epitaph is there to see:
"Beneath this stone I'm force to lie
A victim of the blue tail fly."

[Chorus]
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
My master's gone away
[Verse 6]
Now master's gone so let him rest
They say that things are for the best
I can't forget till the day I die
My master and the blue tail fly

[Chorus]
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
My master's gone away

[Chorus]
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
My master's gone away