Big Bill Broonzy - Jimmy Crack Corn - the Blue Tail Fly lyrics

Refr: 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 pa**ed the bottle when he got dry And brush away the blue tail fly Refr 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 Refr 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 Refr 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 Refr They burr'd 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 Refr