Bluetail Fly (aka Jimmy Crack Corn)


Tabs provided by Tony Bellamy...                                            For Diatonic harmonica
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                                                                                                                                                                                            Midi 1(C200)

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When I was young I used to wait
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On Mas-ter and fetch him his plate,
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And pass the bot-tle when he got dry,
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And brush a-way the blue-tail fly.


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Jim-my Crack Corn, and  I  don't care,
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Jim-my Crack Corn, and  I  don't care,
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Jim-my Crack Corn, and  I  don't care,
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My mas-ter's gone a - way.
 


Additional Lyrics...

When he would ride in the afternoon
I'd follow him with my hickory broom
The pony being rather shy
When bitten by the blue-tail fly

Chorus

One day he rode around the farm
Flies so numerous that they did swarm
One chanced to bite him on the thigh
The devil take the blue-tail fly

Chorus

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

Chorus

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"


 

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