Jimmy Crack Corn - A deeper song then first imagined!

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Blue Tail Fly
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"Blue Tail Fly", "De Blue Tail Fly", or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a blackface minstrel song, first performed in the United States in the 1840s, which remains a popular children's song today.

Over the years, many variants of text have appeared, but the basic narrative remains intact. On the surface, the song is a black slave's lament over his master's death. The song, however, has a subtext of rejoicing over that death, and possibly having caused it by deliberate negligence.[1] Most versions at least nod to idiomatic African American English, though sanitized, grammatically "correct" versions predominate today.

The blue-tail fly of the song is probably a Southern variant of the horsefly, which feeds on the blood of animals such as horses and cattle, as well as humans, and thus constitutes a prevalent pest in agricultural regions. Some horseflies have a blue-black abdomen, hence the name.

Contents [hide]
1 Lyrics
2 History and interpretation
3 Notes
4 References



[edit] Lyrics
One early version set the idyllic (yet ironic) scene thus:

When I was young A us'd to wait
On Massa and hand him de plate;
Pass down the bottle when he git dry,
And bresh away de blue tail fly.
refrain (repeated each verse):
Jim crack corn

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weird

[Kez]

Ironically i went on the Wikipedia article for Jimmy Crack Corn in the hopes of finding some stuff about the Em song too.

[4D]

I think it`s called "jimmy Crack Corn", cos Eminem and 50 Cent are rejoicing over the death "professionally" of Ja Rule and others on the end of their beefs, the track was always about beef, but, that just kind of clears things up. The Crack-corn, could be Eminem being a cracker too, but, probably less relevant.

[Shads]

good spot. intresting read.