Jimmy Crack Corn,
and I don't care.
Jimmy Crack Corn, and I don't care.
Jimmy Crack Corn, and I don't care.
Old Master's gone away.
When I was young,
I used to wait On Master and hand him the plate,
Pass down the bottle when he got dry,
And brush away the 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,
Old Master's gone away.
Then after dinner,
Old Master's asleep,
he bid me then, a vigil keep,
and when he went to shut his eye,
he said, you watch that blue tail fly.
Give me crack corn, and I don't care.
Give me crack corn, and I don't care.
Give me crack corn, and I don't care.
Old Master's gone away.
And when he rode in the afternoon,
I followed along with a hickory broom.
For the pony he would always shy
when bitten by the blue -tailed fly.
Give me crack corn, and I don't care.
Give me crack corn and I don't care,
give me crack corn and
I don't care,
that's just on the way.
One day he rode around the farm,
the flies so numerous they disarmed.
One chance to bite him on the thigh,
the devil take that 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,
Ol' Massa's gone away.
The pony run, he jumped to pitch,
and threw Ol' Massa in a ditch.
He died and the jury wondered why,
the verdict was the blue -tailed fly.
Give me crack corn, an d I don't care.
Give me crack corn, and I don't care.
Give me crack corn, and I don't care.
Old Master's gone away.
They laid him neat, a cement tree.
His epitaph is there to see.
Beneath this stone, I'm forced to lie,
the victim of the blue -tailed fly.
Give me crack corn,
and I don't care.
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care.
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care.
Ol' Massa's gone away.
Ol' Massa's gone, now let him rest.
They say all things is for the best.
I never shall forget till the day I die,
Ol' Massa and the Blue -Tailed Fly.
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care.
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care.
Jimmy cracked the horn
and I don't care.
Home ash is gone away.