The Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn) - Lead Belly

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 mastas gone away

Rod-a, he ride him and he jumped a ditch,

He ride-a, he rode him, and the pony did pitch

The pony, he felt a little bit shy,

‘Cause he’s bitten by that blue-tailed 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 mastas gone away.

When I went down in Louisiana,

I stayed a little while in Texarkana

Every once in a while, I felt a little bit shy

‘Cause I was bitten by that blue-tailed 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 mastas gone away

I was on my to Shreveport, Louisiana,

Then I stopped out in Caspiana

And I felt a little bit shy,

‘Cause I was bitten by that blue-tailed 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 mastas gone away

When I was drivin' along in my car

I was stoppin' most anywhere

Once in while I look up in the sky

‘Cause I was bitten by that blue-tailed 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 mastas gone away

Once in a while I do a little bit o’dance,

And some of the people come around and says, 'Will you allow me a little chance?

But every once in a while I feel a little bit shy

‘Cause I was bitten by that blue-tailed 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 mastas gone away.

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 mastas gone away.