{title: Blue-tail Fly}
{meta: credit_status unverified}
{meta: source https://www.jasonpaul.net/songs/blue-tail-fly-jimmy-crack-corn/}
{capo: 0}
When [E]I was young I [A]used to wait
at [E]master's side and [B7]hand [F#m7]his plate
[B7]and [E]pass the bottle when [A]he got dry
and [B7]brush away the [E]blue tail fly

{c: Chorus}
Jimmy crack corn and [B7]I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and [E]I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and [A]I don't care
'Ol [B7]master's gone a[E]way

Then [E]after dinner [A]he would sleep
a [E]vigil I would [B7]have [F#m7]to keep
[B7]and [E]when he wanted to [A]shut his eye
he [B7]told me "watch the [E]blue-tail fly"

{c: Chorus}

One [E]day he road a[A]round the farm
the [E]flies so numrous [B7]they [F#m7]did swarm
[B7]one [E]chanced a bitin him [A]on the thy
the [B7]devil take the [E]blue-tail fly

{c: Chorus}

The [E]pony run he [A]jump and pitch
and [E]tossed the master [B7]in [F#m7]the ditch
[B7]he [E]died the jury they [A]wondered why
the [B7]verdict was the [E]blue-tail fly

{c: Chorus}

They [E]laid him neath a [A]'simmon tree
his [E]epitaph is [B7]there [F#m7]to see
[B7]"be[E]neath this stone I'm [A]forced to lie
a [B7]victim of the [E]blue-tail fly"

{c: Chorus}

Ol [E]master's gone now [A]let him rest
They [E]say that things are [B7]for [F#m7]the best
[B7]I [E]can't forget till the [A]day I die
Ol [B7]master and the [E]blue-tail fly

{c: Chorus}