The Blue Tailed Fly

The Blue Tailed Fly - Pete Seeger

When I was young I used to wait

On my master and serve him his plate

And pass the bottle when he got dry

And brush away the blue tail fly

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

My master's gone away

And when he ride in the afternoon

I follow with a hickory broom

The poney being rather shy

When bitten by the blue tail fly

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

My master's gone away

One day he rode around the farm

The flies so numerous they did swarm

One chanced to bite him on the thigh

The devil take that blue tail fly

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

My master's gone away

The pony jumped as the pitch

He through my master in the ditch

He died and the jury wondered why

The verdict was the blue tail fly

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

My master's gone away

He lies beneath the simon tree

His epitaph

Is there to see

Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie

The victim of a blue tailed fly

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

My master's gone away hey

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

My master's gone away