Jimmy Crack Corn

	  		 
 

Verse I.) 

  G                                  D 
 When I was young I used to wait 

                                 G 
 On the master and hand him his plate, 

G7                                     C 
And Pass the bottle when he got dry, 

        D                        G 
 And brush away the blue tail fly. 




 

G                                   D 
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, 

                              G 
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, 

G7                                 C 
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, 

       D              G 
My master's gone away. 

  


Verse II.) 

 G                                     D 
And when he ride in the afternoon, 

                          G 
I follow with a hickory broom; 

 G7                          C 
The poney being very shy, 

         D                       G 
When bitten by the blue tail fly. 



(Chorus) 



Verse III.) 

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One day he rode around the farm, 

                                G 
The flies so numerous they did swarm; 

 G7                                    C 
One chanced to bite him on the thigh. 

        D                          G 
The devil take that blue tail fly. 



(Chorus) 



Verse IV: 

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The pony run, he jump and pitch, 

                          G 
And tumble mater in the ditch; 

 G7                                   C 
He died, and the jury wondered why; 

        D                         G 
The verdict was the blue tail fly. 


(Chorus) 



Verse V: 
  
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They buried him 'neath the sycamore tree - 

                          G  
His epitaph there for to see: 

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"Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie, 

       D                         G 
The victim of a blue-tailed Fly." 


(Chorus)