When I was young I used to wait
On master and hand him de plate
Pa** down the bottle when he got dry
And brush away de blue tail fly
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Ol' master's gone away
Then after dinner master sleep
He bid this fellow vigil keep
And when he's 'bout to shut his eye
He tells me watch the blue-tail fly
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Ol' master's gone away
And when he rides in the afternoon
I follow with a hickory broom
The pony being verry shy
When bitten by the blue-tail fly
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Ol' master's gone away
One day he rode around the farm
The flies so numerous they did swarm
One changed to bite him on the thigh
The devil take the blu-tail fly
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Ol' master's gone away
The pony run, he jump and pitch
And tumbled master in the ditch
He died and the jury wondered why
The verdict was: The blue-tail fly!
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Ol' master's gone away
They laid him under a'simmon tree
His epitaph am there to see:
'Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie
All because of the blue-tail fly!'
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Ol' master's gone away
Old master's gone, now let him rest
They say all things are for the best
I never forget, 'till de day I die
Old master and that blue-tail fly
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Ol' master's gone away