Jimmy Crack Corn (The Blue Tail Fly)
by 
Big Bill Broonzy 
recording of 19 
from, 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
The Master's gone away 
When I was young I used to wait, 
on my Master 'n bring him his plate, 
and passed the bottle when he got dry 
and brush away the blue tail fly 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
The Master's gone away 
When he would ride around the farm, 
so numerous the flies they all would swarm, 
one chanced to bite him on the thigh, 
oh, the devil take the blue tail fly 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
The Master's gone away 
When he would ride in the afternoon, 
I would follow with the hickory broom, 
the pony began to run and shy, 
when bitten by the blue tail fly 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
The Master's gone away 
The pony run, he jumped, he pitched, 
he threw my Master in the ditch, 
and when he died the juries wondered why, 
the verdict was the blue tail fly 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
The Master's gone away 
They buried him under the 'simmon tree, 
his epitaph was there to see: 
"Upon this stone I'm forced to lie, 
a victim of the blue tail fly" 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
Jimmy crack corn an' I don't care 
The Master's gone away