A5 E5 When I was young I used to wait A5 On master and hand him his plate A5 D5 Pass him the bottle when he got dry E5 A5 And brush away the blue-tail fly A5 E5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care A5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care A5 D5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care E5 A5 My master's gone away A5 E5 When he would ride in the afternoon A5 I'd follow him with my hickory broom A5 D5 The pony being rather shy E5 A5 When bitten by the blue-tail fly A5 E5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care A5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care A5 D5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care E5 A5 My master's gone away A5 E5 One day he rode around the farm A5 Flies so numerous that they did swarm A5 D5 One chanced to bite him on the thigh E5 A5 The devil take the blue-tail fly A5 E5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care A5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care A5 D5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care E5 A5 My master's gone away Well the pony jumped, he start, he pitch He threw my master in the ditch He died and the jury wondered why The verdict was the blue-tail fly A5 E5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care A5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care A5 D5 Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care E5 A5 My master's gone away Now he lies beneath the 'simmon tree His epitaph is there to see "Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie The victim of the blue-tail fly"
