Blue Tail Fly-Burl Ives

[00:07.56]When I was young, I used to wait [00:10.59]On the boss and give him his plate [00:14.16]And pass him the bottle when he got dry [00:18.15]And brush away the blue tail fly [00:21.36]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [00:24.24]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [00:27.09]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [00:29.79]My master's gone away [00:35.28]And When he would ride in the afternoon [00:39.57]I'd follow after, with a hickory broom [00:45.81]The pony being rather shy [00:48.15]When bitten by blue tail fly [00:51.57]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [00:55.14]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [00:57.24]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [00:59.94]My master's gone away [01:02.52]One day, he ride around the farm [01:05.64]The flies so numerous, they did swarm [01:08.34]One chanced to bite him on the thigh [01:11.31]The devil take the blue tail fly [01:14.31]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [01:17.16]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [01:19.92]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [01:22.59]My master's gone away [01:38.88]The pony run, he jumped, he pitch [01:41.82]He threw my master in the ditch [01:45.54]He died and the jury wondered why [01:50.52]The verdict was the blue tail fly [01:53.40]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [01:56.58]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [01:59.16]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [02:01.80]My master's gone away [02:06.57]They lay him under a 'simmon tree [02:09.81]His epitaph is there to see [02:14.46]"Beneath this stone, I'm forced to lie [02:20.10]Victim of the blue tail fly" [02:21.81]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [02:24.69]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [02:27.48]Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care [02:30.21]My master's gone away