Misc Traditional – Jimmy Crack Corn (Guitar)

Capo 4
Key
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Chords

[Verse 1]
     G             D
When I was young I used to wait

                  G
On the master and hand him his plate,

    G7                   C
And pass the bottle when he got dry,

    D              G
And brush away the blue tail fly.
[Chorus]
G                    D
[tab]                     G
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

G7                   C
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

   D              G
My master's gone away.
[Verse 2]
    G                   D
And when he ride in the afternoon,

                G
I follow with a hickory broom;

    G7         C
The pony being very shy,

     D             G
When bitten by the blue tail fly.
[Chorus]
G                    D
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

                     G
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

G7                   C
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

   D              G
My master's gone away.
[Verse 3]
    G            D
One day he rode around the farm,

                      G
The flies so numerous they did swarm;

    G7                  C
One chanced to bite him on the thigh.

    D               G
The devil take that blue tail fly.
[Chorus]
G                    D
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

                     G
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

G7                   C
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

   D              G
My master's gone away.
[Verse 4]
    G            D
The pony run, he jump and pitch,

                  G
And tumble master in the ditch;

   G7                 C
He died, and the jury wondered why;

    D               G
The verdict was the blue tail fly.
[Chorus]
G                    D
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

                     G
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

G7                   C
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

   D              G
My master's gone away.
[Verse 5]
     G                     D
They buried him 'neath the sycamore tree -

                  G
His epitaph there for to see:

   G7                   C
"Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie,

    D           G
The victim of a blue-tailed fly."
[Chorus]
G                    D
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

                     G
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

G7                   C
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

   D              G
My master's gone away.