[ti:The Blue Tailed Fly] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:The Folk Collection Volume One] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blue Tail Fly - Pete Seeger [00:00.60]When I was young I used to wait [00:04.43]On the master and hand him his plate [00:09.21]And pass the bottle when he got dry [00:13.05]And brush away the blue tail fly [00:16.83]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [00:19.77]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [00:22.84]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [00:25.83]My master's gone away [00:28.46]And when he ride in the afternoon [00:31.91]I follow with a hickory broom [00:36.31]The poney being rather shy [00:39.56]When bitten by the blue tail fly [00:43.22]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [00:45.93]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [00:48.98]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [00:51.99]My master's gone away [00:56.32]One day he rode around the farm [01:00.22]The flies so numerous they did swarm [01:04.60]One chanced to bite him on the thigh [01:08.11]The devil take that blue tail fly [01:11.24]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [01:14.27]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [01:17.19]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [01:20.09]My master's gone away [01:23.02]The pony jump he tasi and pitch [01:26.57]And tumble master in the ditch [01:31.05]He died and the jury wondered why [01:35.27]The verdict was the blue tail fly [01:38.45]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [01:41.10]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [01:44.34]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [01:47.09]My master's gone away [01:50.17]They buried him 'neath the sycamore tree [01:53.16]His epitaph there for to see [01:58.70]Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie [02:03.31]The victim of a blue tailed fly [02:06.23]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [02:09.21]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [02:12.18]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [02:15.15]My master's gone away hey [02:18.00]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [02:20.70]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [02:23.59]Jimmy crack corn and I don't care [02:26.57]My master's gone away