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"Jimmy Crack Corn" (originally "Jim Crack Corn") tells the story of a slave whose job is "to wait on Massa and hand him de plate / Pass down de bottle when he git dry / And bresh away de blue-tail fly." Among the things he's supposed to bresh away de blue-tail fly from is Massa's pony, using a hickory broom. One day when the flies are especially thick, one gets through and bites . . . well, either Massa or the pony, you can't quite tell. Anyway, the pony bolts, Massa pitches into the ditch and dies, and the coroner's jury blames the blue-tail fly. "Jim[my] crack corn, I don't care / Ole Massa gone away."

2007-01-12 12:33:55 · answer #1 · answered by chumpchange 6 · 2 0

"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.

There has been much conjecture over the meaning of "Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care." One possibility is "gimcrack corn," cheap corn whiskey; another related theory is that it refers to "cracking" open a jug of corn whisky; another is that "crack-corn" is related to the (still-current) slang "cracker" for a rural Southern white.[7] Another, and possibly the most popular, is that the chorus refers to an overseer who, without the master, has only his bullwhip to keep the slaves in line. Most etymologists support the first interpretation, as the term "cracker" appears to predate "corncracking", and "whipcracker" has no historical backing.[8] This suggests that the chorus means the slaves are making whiskey and celebrating. Pete Seeger himself was said to explain the true lyric was "Gimmie cracked corn--I don't care",[9] a reference to a form of punishment for something very bad, in which a slave's rations were reduced to cracked corn and nothing else. In this case, the author seems to have decided that even this punishment is worth it, since the master is now dead and gone.

2007-01-12 12:33:32 · answer #2 · answered by dani 2 · 0 0

Jimmy Cracked Corn is a pimp on 33rd and East..he got me my first taste of tail in 86 ..when jimmy says he dont care ..he means..bytch wheres my money and if the hoe gives jimmy an excuse ..he says I dont care..my money ..wheres my money..you see jimmy is one bad dude...wiff a name like jimmy cracked corn..you have to be...he drives a honda civic...he that bad of a pimp..you dig..

2007-01-12 12:34:49 · answer #3 · answered by Kingofreportedabuse 3 · 1 0

It means that a boy named jimmy cracked his corn and nobody cares

2007-01-12 12:32:30 · answer #4 · answered by stm06 2 · 3 2

Jimmy was cracking corn because his master was away. Jimmy was not allowed to crack corn other wise. I think the three stooges explain it better.

2015-06-11 07:59:03 · answer #5 · answered by kathy 1 · 0 0

Brina you're funny :) It means I should be doing my work but I'm watching Jimmy another slave work and I don't care ("cause the massa's gone away") That's how the song ends

2007-01-12 12:34:09 · answer #6 · answered by Agnon L 5 · 0 0

It is "give me" (or "gimme" if you prefer) -- not "Jimmy".

It means that the singer is ga-ga over cracked corn and doesn't care for anything else if he can get some.

2007-01-12 12:39:14 · answer #7 · answered by george 4 · 1 2

May have to do with drinking corn squeezin's

here's a good article

2007-01-12 12:33:23 · answer #8 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 0 1

are u retarded? the meaning is obvious. a sped named jimmy p. cracked a piece of corn. how? easy tardo. u take it and u CRACK it. like u would crack anything. u just crack it. how do u tihnk we all got our cracks? God just cracked us. so it means jimmy cracked corn. and i dont care.

2007-01-12 12:47:47 · answer #9 · answered by zahnyboy13 2 · 0 5

it means that a kid names Clarance asked this question and i don't really care

2007-01-12 12:44:40 · answer #10 · answered by jamie 3 · 0 2

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