![]() The horse bucks and the master is killed. One day he rode aroun' de farm, De flies so numerous dey did swarm One chanced to bite 'im on the thigh. In the two verses that follow, the singer is told to protect his master's horse from the bite of the blue-tail fly:Īn' when he ride in de afternoon, I foiler wid a hickory broom De poney being berry shy, When bitten by de blue tail fly. refrain (repeated each verse): Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, My master's gone away. When I was young I us'd to wait On the boss and hand him his plate And Pass down the bottle when he got dry, And brush away the blue tail fly. ![]() Bugs Bunny sings " Jimmy Crack Corn" which may have originally been a strange sort of slave freedom song (well, it was a crime for a slave to escape or kill his owner.
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