Текст песни: Blue Tail Fly + перевод

When I was young,

I used to wait

A master, and give him his plate.

And pass the butter when he was dry,

And brush away

The Blue Tail Fly.

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

My master’s gone away.

When he’d ride in the afternoon,

I’d follow after with a hickory broom,

The pony being rather shy,

When bitten by the Blue Tail Fly.

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

My master’s gone away.

One day he ride around the farm,

The flies so num’rous, they did

One chanced to bite him on the thigh,

The devil take the Blue Tail Fly.

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

My master’s gone away.

The pony run, he jumped, he pitched,

He threw my master in the ditch.

He died and the jury wondered why

The verdict was the

Blue Tail Fly.

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

My master’s gone away.

They lay him under a cin’mon tree

His epitaph is there to see.

«Beneath this stone, I’m forced to lie,

A victim of the Blue Tail Fly».

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

Jimmy cracked corn, and I don’t care,

My master’s gone away.

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