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Thread #1141   Message #4055894
Posted By: Lighter
29-May-20 - 06:07 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)
Subject: RE: Origins: Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)
Oops. That text of the Fly is really from the Yazoo City (Miss.) Whig (Nov. 13, 1846), p. 1:

“Blue Tailed Flies—We have always had an aversion to ‘blue tailed flies,’ but by request of a musical friend, we let the following loose among our readers:..."