Blue Tail Fly Songtext
von Pete Seeger

When I was young, I used to wait
On my master and serve him his plate
And pass 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
Me master's gone away

And when he'd ride in the afternoon
I′d follow with a hickory broom
The pony being rather shy
When bitten by 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
Me master's gone away


One day he rode 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
Me master's gone away

The pony jumped, he tossed, he pitched
He threw my master in the ditch
He died and the jury wondered why
The verdict was a 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
Me master's gone away

He lies beneath a clement tree
His epitaph is there to see
"Beneath this stone I′m forced to lie
The victim of a 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
Me master′s gone away, hey!

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don′t care
Me master′s gone away