Burl Ives - Blue Tail Fly Lyrics






When I was young I used to wait
On the boss and give 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
My master's gone away

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





Other Lyrics by Artist

Rand Lyrics

Last Posts

Burl Ives Blue Tail Fly Comments
  1. j.... ....

    Brings backs wonderful memories of growing up in the 1950s

  2. F.... M....

    Ole massa gone, now let 'im rest,

    Dey say all tings am for de best;

    I neber forget till de day I die,

    Ole massa an' dat blue-tail fly

  3. D.... D....

    Fantastic 👍👍

  4. J.... E....

    Sept 11. Blue tail fly

  5. S.... d....

    Mama kendig?

  6. D.... J....

    If he doesn't care why'd he write the song?

    D.... J....

    He doesn't care because he's drinking corn whiskey to celebrate getting away with killing his slave master.

    That's the implication, at least.

    D.... J....

    Are you really that ignorant? lol

  7. S.... T....

    I love Burl Ives's voice

  8. Z.... ....

    i was born in 1943, and this song used to make me a my hogs have misty eye

  9. C.... D....

    Ones of those songs from early childhood that is so nostalgic it gives me goosebumps!

    C.... D....

    Burl ives singing gives me goosebumps

    C.... D....

    Same here.

  10. M.... P....

    me tooo :3

  11. P.... A....

    I love this song :)