Folk Blues: Blue Tail Fly

Folk Blues: Blue Tail Fly - Big Bill Broonzy

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 bring him his plate

And passed the bottle when he got dry

And brush away the blue tail fly

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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