"Jimmy Crack Corn, And I Don't Care..." Well...I DO care !!! Do you??? (and what the hell does that mean?)

Answer 1

As the founding member of the Corn Liberation Army, I assure you that I care quite a lot.

Corn cracking is a well hidden secret in the U.S. Every day, thousands if not millions of innocent ears of corn are plucked from their carefree days hanging around in the sunshine, and are subjected to the most inhumane brutality.

Some have their kernels stripped off them and used to fill cans, while others are mummified in plastic and shipped to grocery stores to eventually be boiled alive and eaten.

But the ones that endure the cracking are the ones to be pitied the most. I can't tell you about it now, because the tears of sorrow in my eyes are making it hard to see my computer keyboard.

Please! Won't you join the Corn Liberation Army?

Answer 2

It's an old slave song about the master dying and the slave doesn't care...we don't sing the 1st verse, usually just the chorus...here are both...there are more verses

[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 — I don't care,
Jim crack corn — I don't care,
Jim crack corn — I don't care,
Old Massa gone away.

Answer 3

hi ru4real
why are you saying you care about a something you dont know the meaning of?
plausible theory I've heard is that "cracking corn" means cracking open a jug of corn liquor. Try it next time your Massa goes away, and after a half dozen verses you won't care either.

Answer 4

Why is he cracking corn? What did the corn ever do to deserve that? Is he some kind of food sadist who beats eggs and whips cream? We need to bring this evil monster to justice, and I'm not going to rest until he's behind bars!!! (OK, I may sleep a little...)

Answer 5

a popular interpretation of the "crack-corn" is to crack open a bottle of corn whiskey, it is a slave song, the master has died, and it can be taken as a celebration of that fact, the master has gone away,

Answer 6

Well, the according to the glorious Wikipedia, "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."

So I'm glad you DO care, because he's a-singing against the evils of slavery! Yippie!

Answer 7

That is some sort slave song. It probably has something to with taking the day off because the next line is "the master's gone away."

Answer 8

I have absolutely no idea, at first I thought he was trying to say something but after a couple lines I was lost like oh yeah wow what an angry person... http://www.eminemweb.com/lyrics/track/110/ oh gee did you mean the old folk song??? oops sorry, I swear I had no idea...

Answer 9

I care.

With one third of all of America's corn supply being dedicated to ethanol fuel, and the rising supply of popcorn, I feel that Jimmy is hoarding and wasting the other 66.6%, and I demand that he stops immediately.

(Jimmy, you jerk. Stop raising my movie concession prices! I still need to go see Die Hard 4.)

Answer 10

I know...if someone was sitting next to me crackin corn I would be peeved...crackin corn...what a pig
I could just picture him...biting on a raw corn cob crackin off the kernels and spittin them all over the place...where is Jimmy?? If he ever cracks corn near me I'm gonna kick his a**