JIM CRACK CORN

Big old owl with eyes so bright,
On many a dark and starry night.
I've often heard my true love say,
Sing all night and sleep all day.
CHORUS:
Jim crack corn, I don't care;
Jim crack corn, I don't care,
Jim crack corn, I don't care
Old Master's gone away

Said the blackbird to the crow,
Down to the cornfield let us go;
Pulling up corn has been our trade,
Ever since Adam and Eve was made.

Said the sheldrake to the crane:
When do you think we'll have some rain?
The farm's so muddy and the brook so dry,
If it wasn't for tadpoles, we'd all die.

When I was a boy I used to wait
On Master's table and pass the plate,
Hand round the bottle when he got dry,
And brush away the blue-tailed fly.


Ruth Crawford Seeger in her book, "American Folk songs for Children"
included this version that has more emphasis on animals and less on
a story line. A recording of this version by Mike & Peggy Seeger
is found on their collection of songs from the book. In the book
RC Seeger notes that she learned it from a phonograph recording of
an old man who said on the recording that he learned it from an aged banjo
picker when he (the old man) was a small boy.RR

@kids @bird
filename[ BLUETAI2
TUNE FILE: BLUETAIL
CLICK TO PLAY
RR
OCT98
mudcat.org

---

PLEASE NOTE: Because of the volunteer nature of The Digital Tradition, it is difficult to ensure proper attribution and copyright information for every song included. Please assume that any song which lists a composer is copyrighted ©. You MUST aquire proper license before using these songs for ANY commercial purpose. If you have any additional information or corrections to the credit or copyright information included, please e-mail those additions or corrections to us (along with the song title as indexed) so that we can update the database as soon as possible. Thank You.