[Verse 1]

When I was young, I used to wait

My master sighed and hand him late

And passed the bottle when he got dry

And brushed away the blue tail fly

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

Then, after dinner he would sleep

A vigil eye would have to keep

And when he wanted to shut his eyes

He told me watch the blue tail fly

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

One day he rode around thе farm

The flies so numerous, thеy did swarm

One chanced to bite him on the thigh

The devil take the blue tail fly

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 4]

The pony ran and jumped and pitch

He tumbled master in a ditch

He died the jury they wondered why

The verdict was the blue tail fly

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 5]

They laid him 'neath the 'simmon tree

His epitaph is there to see:

"Beneath this stone I'm force to lie

A victim of the blue tail fly."

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 6]

Now master's gone so let him rest

They say that things are for the best

I can't forget till the day I die

My master and the blue tail fly

[Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

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