Blue Tail Fly Lyrics

The song Blue Tail Fly is performed by Burl Ives in the album named 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection in the year 2001 .



When I was young, I used to wait
On the boss and give him his plate
And pa*s him 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 would ride in the afternoon
I'd follow after, with a hickory broom
The pony being rather shy
When bitten by 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 jumped, 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
Victim of 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



Burl Ives - 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection

Sep 2001

  1. A Little Bitty Tear
  2. Funny Way Of Laughing
  3. Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)
  4. Blue Tail Fly
  5. Wild Side Of Life
  6. Call Me Mr. In-Between
  7. Pearly Shells (Popo O Ewa)
  8. Mary Ann Regrets
  9. The Same Old Hurt
  10. Big Rock Candy Mountain
  11. Foggy, Foggy Dew
  12. Goober Peas

Blue Tail Fly