Blue Tail Fly chords by Vaughn Monroe

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Verse 1
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Em 
When I was young, I used to wait
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A 
On Master and give him his plate
G 
Em 
And pass the bottle when he was dry
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D 
And brush away the blue -tailed fly
A 
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care
D 
Jimmy Crack Corn and  I don't care
G 
Em 
Jimmy Crack Corn and  I don't care
A 
D 
G 
A 
My Master's gone away
D 
G 
Em 
When he'd ride in the afternoon,
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A 
I'd follow at with a hickory broom,
G 
Em 
the pony being rather shy
A 
when bitten by the
D 
blue -tailed fly.
A 
Jimmy Crack Corn and  I don't care,
D 
Jimmy Crack Corn and  I don't care,
G 
Em 
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care,
A 
D 
G 
A 
my master's gone away.
D 
G 
Em 
One day he ride around the farm,
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A 
The plies so numerous they did swarm,
G 
Em 
One chance to bite him on the thigh,
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D 
The devil take the blue -tailed fly.
A 
Jimmy Crack Corn and  I don't care,
D 
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care,
G 
Em 
Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care,
A 
D 
My master's gone away.
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A 
D 
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Ab 
Bb 
Eb 
Ab 
Fm 
The pony ran, he jumped, he pitched,
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Bb 
He threw my master in the ditch.
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Fm 
He died, and the jury wondered why,
Bb 
The verdict was the
Eb 
blue -tailed fly.
Jimmy Crack Corn,
Bb 
and I don't care,
Jimmy Crack Corn,
Eb 
and  I don't care,
Fm 
Jimmy Crack Corn, and I don't care,
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Eb 
Ab 
Bb 
My master's gone away.
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Ab 
Fm 
They lay him under a cement tree
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D 
Bb 
His epi taph is there to see
Ab 
Fm 
Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie
Bb 
Eb 
Victim of the blue -tailed fly
Bb 
Jimmy Crackcord and  I don't care
Eb 
Jimmy Crackcord and  I don't
care
Ab 
Fm 
Jimmy Crackcord and  I don't care
Bb 
Bbdim 
Eb 
Cm 
Eb 
My master's gone     away you