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Jimmy Crack Corn

 
Chorus: 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.

When I was young, I used to wait,
Upon my master, and give him his plate,
I'd pass the bottle when he got dry,
And brush away the blue tail fly.

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He use to ride in the afternoon,
I'd follow him with a hickory broom,
The pony being rather shy,
When bitten by the blue tail fly.

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One day he rode across the far,
The flies so numerous they did swarm,
One chanced to bit him on the thigh
The devil take the blue tail fly.

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The horse he run, he jump, he pitch
And throw my master in the ditch
He died, and the jury wondered why
The verdict was the blue tail fly.

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They buried him under a simeon tree
His epitaph is there to see
Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie
The victim of the blue tail fly.