Jimmy Crack Corn chords by The Traditional

Chords with lyrics

Capo on 4th.

Verse I.)

 G+G                 D MajorD
 When I was young I used to wait

                 G+G
 On the master and hand him his plate,

G7G7                   C majorC
And Pass the bottle when he got dry,

    D MajorD            G+G
 And brush away the blue tail fly.

Chorus:

G+G                  D MajorD
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

               G+G
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

G7G7                 C majorC
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,

    D MajorD       G+G
My master's gone away.


Verse II.)

 G+G                   D MajorD
And when he ride in the afternoon,

             G+G
I follow with a hickory broom;

 G7G7             C majorC
The poney being very shy,

     D MajorD            G+G
When bitten by the blue tail fly.

(Chorus)


Verse III.)

 G+G                  D MajorD
One day he rode around the farm,

                G+G
The flies so numerous they did swarm;

 G7G7                  C majorC
One chanced to bite him on the thigh.

    D MajorD             G+G
The devil take that blue tail fly.


(Chorus)


Verse IV:

 G+G                 D MajorD
The pony run, he jump and pitch,

             G+G
And tumble mater in the ditch;

 G7G7                  C majorC
He died, and the jury wondered why;

    D MajorD             G+G
The verdict was the blue tail fly.


(Chorus)


Verse V:

 G+G                     D MajorD
They buried him 'neath the sycamore tree -

             G+G
His epitaph there for to see:

 G7G7                  C majorC
"Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie,

    D MajorD             G+G
The victim of a blue-tailed Fly."