Enter blue tail fly in Lyrics and Knowledge Search and lots will come up. Has the line Jimmie crack corn. No give me craked(?) corn (genetically modified?). Sung in?? - the old minstrel shows.

American Memory has copies of Rose of Alabama, published by Masran in the 19th century, essentially the same as the version in the DT. Author(?) and date (1846) given in thread 10629: Rose of Alabama