Jimmy Crack Corn

Capo on 4th.

Verse I.)

  G                                  D
 When I was young I used to wait

                                 G
 On the master and hand him his plate,

G7                                     C
And Pass the bottle when he got dry,

        D                        G
 And brush away the blue tail fly.




Chorus:

G                                   D
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

                              G
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

G7                                 C
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

       D              G
My master's gone away.
 


Verse II.)

 G                                     D
And when he ride in the afternoon,

                          G
I follow with a hickory broom;

 G7                          C
The poney being very shy,

         D                       G
When bitten by the blue tail fly.



(Chorus)



Verse III.)

 G                                    D
One day he rode around the farm,

                                G
The flies so numerous they did swarm;

 G7                                    C
One chanced to bite him on the thigh.

        D                          G
The devil take that blue tail fly.



(Chorus)



Verse IV:

 G                                 D
The pony run, he jump and pitch,

                          G
And tumble mater in the ditch;

 G7                                   C
He died, and the jury wondered why;

        D                         G
The verdict was the blue tail fly.


(Chorus)



Verse V:
 
  G                                         D
They buried him 'neath the sycamore tree -

                          G 
His epitaph there for to see:

  G7                                    C
"Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie,

       D                         G
The victim of a blue-tailed Fly."


(Chorus)