AE
When I was young I used to wait
A
On master and hand him his plate
A7D
Pass him the bottle when he got dry
EA
And brush away the blue-tail fly
AE
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
A
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
A7D
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
EA
My master's gone away
AE
When he would ride in the afternoon
A
I'd follow him with my hickory broom
A7D
The pony being rather shy
EA
When bitten by the blue-tail fly
AE
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
A
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
A7D
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
EA
My master's gone away
AE
One day he rode around the farm
A
Flies so numerous that they did swarm
A7D
One chanced to bite him on the thigh
EA
The devil take the blue-tail fly
AE
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
A
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
A7D
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
EA
My master's gone away
Well the pony jumped, he start, he pitch
He threw my master in the ditch
He died and the jury wondered why
The verdict was the blue-tail fly
AE
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
A
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
A7D
Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care
EA
My master's gone away
Now he lies beneath the 'simmon tree
His epitaph is there to see
"Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie
The victim of the blue-tail fly"
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.