Blue Tail Fly Lyrics - Singles - Burl Ives

When I was young, I used to wait 

On the boss and give him his plate 

And pass him the bottle when he got dry 

And brush away the blue tail fly 

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 

And When he would ride in the afternoon 

I'd follow after, with a hickory broom 

The pony being rather shy 

When bitten by blue tail fly 

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 

One day, he ride around the farm 

The flies so numerous, they did swarm 

One chanced to bite him on the thigh 

The devil take the blue tail fly 

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 

The pony run, he jumped, he pitch 

He threw my master in the ditch 

He died and the jury wondered why 

The verdict was the blue tail fly 

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 

They lay him under a 'simmon tree 

His epitaph is there to see 

"Beneath this stone, I'm forced to lie 

Victim of the blue tail fly" 

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