{"id":17793,"date":"2023-10-12T17:36:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=17793"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:35:05","slug":"jimmy-crack-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/jimmy-crack-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Crack Corn (Blue Tail Fly)"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Traditional<\/span><\/p>\n

When [A] I was young I [D] used to wait.
\nOn [E7] master and hand [A] him his plate
\n[A7] Pass him the bottle when [D] he got dry
\nAnd [E7] brush away the [A] blue-tail fly<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }
\n[A] Jimmy crack corn, and [E7] I don’t care
\n[E] Jimmy crack corn, and [A] I don’t care
\n[A7] Jimmy crack corn, and [D] I don’t care
\nMy [E7] master’s gone [A] away<\/span><\/p>\n

One [A] day he rode [D] around the farm
\n[E] The flies so numerous [A] they did swarm
\nOne [A7] chanced to bite him [D] on the thigh
\nThe [E7] devil take the [A] blue-tail fly<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }<\/span><\/p>\n

When [A] he would ride in the [D] afternoon
\nI’d [E] follow him with a [A] hickory broom
\nThe [A7] pony kicked his [D] legs up high
\nWhen [E7] bitten by the [A] blue-tail fly<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }
\n[A] Jimmy crack corn, and [E] I don’t care
\n[E] Jimmy crack corn, and [A] I don’t care
\n[A7] Jimmy crack corn, and [D] I don’t care
\nMy [E] master’s gone [A] away<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }<\/span>
\nWell the [A] pony jumped, he’d [D] buck, he’d pitch
\nHe [E] threw my master [A] in the ditch
\nHe [A7] died and people [D] wondered why
\nThey [E7] blamed it on the [A] blue-tail fly<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }<\/span><\/p>\n

[A] He lies beneath the [D] ‘simmon tree
\nHis [E] epitaph is [A] there to see
\n[A7] “Beneath this stone I’m [D] forced to lie
\nThe [E7] victim of the [A] blue-tail fly”<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }
\n[A] Jimmy crack corn, and [E] I don’t care
\n[E] Jimmy crack corn, and [A] I don’t care
\n[A7] Jimmy crack corn, and [D] I don’t care
\nMy [E] master’s gone [A] away
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Repeat chorus<\/span><\/p>\n

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American Traditional When [A] I was young I [D] used to wait. On [E7] master and hand [A] him his plate [A7] Pass him the bottle when [D] he got dry And [E7] brush away the [A] blue-tail fly { CHORUS } [A] Jimmy crack corn, and [E7] I don’t … CLICK TO VIEW SONGJimmy Crack Corn (Blue Tail Fly)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,133,126,265,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30179,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions\/30179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}