E B
When I was young I used to wait
E
On master and hand him his plate
E7 A
Pass him the bottle when he got dry
B E
And brush away the blue-tail fly
E B
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
E
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
E7 A
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
B E
My master's gone away
E B
When he would ride in the afternoon
E
I'd follow him with my hickory broom
E7 A
The pony being rather shy
B E
When bitten by the blue-tail fly
E B
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
E
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
E7 A
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
B E
My master's gone away
E B
One day he rode around the farm
E
Flies so numerous that they did swarm
E7 A
One chanced to bite him on the thigh
B E
The devil take the blue-tail fly
E B
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
E
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
E7 A
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
B E
My master's gone away
Well the pony jumped, he start, he pitch
He threw my master in the ditch
He died and the jury wondered why
The verdict was the blue-tail fly
E B
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
E
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
E7 A
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
B E
My master's gone away
Now he lies beneath the 'simmon tree
His epitaph is there to see
"Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie
The victim of the blue-tail fly"
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