| Jim, crack corn, I doan' keer, Jim, crack corn, I doan' keer, Jim, crack corn, I doan' keer, Ole—marster's—gone—away! "", another minstrel song still sung by American children• Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America | 2005 - See You On The Other Side• This article may contain , , or examples |
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1963: "The Blue Tail Fly" by eponymous• A is convened to investigate the master's death, or the singer is criminally charged with that death [ ], but owing to the "blue-tail fly," the slave escapes culpability.
13| Susan Eppes's diary of her years reports he also appeared as a figure in : "This dress, you must know, is 'made of Mammy's old one' like Jim Crack Corn's coat—Little Diary, I am afraid you do not know very much of | One day he rode aroun de farm, De flies so numerous did swarm, One chance to bite 'im on de thigh, De debil take de blue tail fly |
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| 1962: "Shticks and Stones" by Gimme and I don't care |
| In this, the singer, ultimately, is unsuccessful; the horse , and the master is thrown and killed | 1976: "Blue-Tail Fly" by Steamboat's a-Comin'• The chorus can be mystifying to modern listeners, but its straightforward meaning is that someone is roughly "cracking" the old master's in preparation for turning it into or |
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| Following , the "Blue Tail Fly" was repopularized by the ' 1947 recording with the | : In the episode "", sings a variant |
1960: "Blue Tail Fly" by Country and Western• Popcorn Time's interface is elegant and intuitive.