Blue Tail Fly

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