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Thread #1141 Message #4174658
Posted By: Lighter
15-Jun-23 - 06:40 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)
Subject: RE: Origins: Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)
A month earlier in a different city:
Daily Richmond Whig (Feb. 21, 1831): “In the course of the evening: -- Comic song: -- ‘The blue-tail’d fly,’ by master [sic] Jas. Mercer [age 10].”