The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1141   Message #3496
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26-Mar-97 - 01:28 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BLUE-TAIL FLY
Does anyone have any additional lyrics other than those posted in DigiTrad? Also would like any additional info on the song if anyone knows anything.

Thanks in Advance,
-Shawn

BLUE-TAIL FLY

When I was young, I used to wait
On my master and give him his plate
And pass the bottle when he got dry
And brush away the blue-tail fly.

CHORUS: Give me cracked corn and I don't care *
Give me cracked corn and I don't care
Give me cracked corn and I don't care
My Master's gone away

He'd ride around in the afternoon
I'd follow after with a hickory broom
His pony being rather shy
When bitten by a blue-tail fly. CHORUS

One day he rode about the farm
The flies so numerous they did swarm
One chanced to bite him on the thigh
The devil take the blue-tail fly. CHORUS

The pony run, he jump, he pitch
He throw'd my master in the ditch
He died and the jury wondered why
The verdict was the blue-tail fly. CHORUS

They laid him 'neath a 'simmon tree
His epitaph is there to see
Beneath this rock, I'm forced to lie
The victim of the blue-tail fly. CHORUS