if jimmy cracked corn and no one cared, then why did they write a song about it?

Answer 1

The lyrics of the song say "I don't care"; not "no one cares." Apparently someone did care, 'cause they did write the song.

Answer 2

A. Apathy makes great prose.
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B. This song was written in a very exciting time in America's history. Normally, corn-crackin would be a news-worthy event by anyone's standards, but the country was awhirl with so many historical milestones at the time that the event only made page eight of the local gazette (below the fold). The fact that such a monumental event as an actual crackin would go without fanfare truly reflected a shift in the zeitgeist of that time.

Much later, Anthony Kiedis, a youth deeply infatuated with the entire corn-crackin movement, took notice of this historical oversight and the lack of accolades lauding Jimmy’s achievement and penned the song that we now all know and love today. Gig’em.

Answer 3

Most of the theories about who Jimmy is and what he's really doing agree that whatever he's doing, the slave doesn't care about it because his master is gone. Whether he's gleefully carefree or woefully despondent is a point of dispute, depending a bit on which of the two main theories you subscribe to:

1."Cracking corn" is opening a bottle of corn liquor; the phrase is self-referential and means "I'm Jimmy, I'm upset, I'm drinking, and I don't care." Well, that sense of crack is certainly old enough, but I can't find any evidence of "corn" being used independently of the phrases "corn liquor" or "corn juice." And if Jimmy is really talking, why use "I" in the second part of the sentence, but be Bob Dole-like in the first part?

2."Cracking corn" really is crushing corn, and it means that someone named Jimmy, presumably a fellow slave, had to start grinding corn for food because of the penury visited on him after the master's death. This is as plausible as any other piece of speculation, but it's not a satisfactory answer to who Jimmy is and why he suddenly turns up in the refrain.

Answer 4

By the same token if Jimmy cracked corn, no one cared, and they made a song about it, why then would someone one such as yourself take this fun one step further by then asking a question on Yahoo answers where you want to find out about this issue. The question is why do people want to talk about completely irrelevant topics. Why is it that when you go to work someone comments about the color of your pants. The answer to that is that regular, unexceptional human beings are not creatures of contemplation but creatures of motion; but as their motions are so banal and insignificant they tend to use their tongues and talk about nonsense all the time. It makes one want to go to Alaska and live with the Arctic owls.

Answer 5

hmm. pointless observation, but interesting nonetheless. perhaps jimmy was a person of considerable importance, and someone was hired to observe his daily life 24/7. even though he didn't care, maybe he was required as part of his job to observe it and wrote a song about it just cuz he was bored.

Answer 6

Good question....i guess some farmer kids were bored and decided to write a song about it? lol

Answer 7

it was a song that slaves sang in the while they were working, you see they weren't alowd to speak but they were alowed to sing, another one is Swing Low Sweet Cchariot

Answer 8

good question! that is a really good answer. um maybe he was bored

Answer 9

Little Boy Blue was "blowing his horn"!!!

Answer 10

cause they were high