American Traditional
When [A] I was young I [D] used to wait.
On [E7] master and hand [A] him his plate
[A7] Pass him the bottle when [D] he got dry
And [E7] brush away the [A] blue-tail fly
[CHORUS]
[A] Jimmy crack corn, and [E7] I don’t care
[E] Jimmy crack corn, and [A] I don’t care
[A7] Jimmy crack corn, and [D] I don’t care
My [E7] master’s gone [A] away
One [A] day he rode [D] around the farm
[E] The flies so numerous [A] they did swarm
One [A7] chanced to bite him [D] on the thigh
The [E7] devil take the [A] blue-tail fly
[ CHORUS ]
When [A] he would ride in the [D] afternoon
I’d [E] follow him with a [A] hickory broom
The [A7] pony kicked his [D] legs up high
When [E7] bitten by the [A] blue-tail fly
[CHORUS]
[A] Jimmy crack corn, and [E] I don’t care
[E] Jimmy crack corn, and [A] I don’t care
[A7] Jimmy crack corn, and [D] I don’t care
My [E] master’s gone [A] away
[ CHORUS ]
Well the [A] pony jumped, he’d [D] buck, he’d pitch
He [E] threw my master [A] in the ditch
He [A7] died and people [D] wondered why
They [E7] blamed it on the [A] blue-tail fly
[ CHORUS ]
[A] He lies beneath the [D] ‘simmon tree
His [E] epitaph is [A] there to see
[A7] “Beneath this stone I’m [D] forced to lie
The [E7] victim of the [A] blue-tail fly”
[CHORUS]
[A] Jimmy crack corn, and [E] I don’t care
[E] Jimmy crack corn, and [A] I don’t care
[A7] Jimmy crack corn, and [D] I don’t care
My [E] master’s gone [A] away
Repeat chorus
