The blue tail fly chords by
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Key: Eb major•

Verse 1

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"I've heard it said

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That this song was a favourite

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Of that very famous

and great American

Abraham Lincoln"

Verse 2

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When I was young, I used to wait

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On master and give him his plate

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And pass him the bottle

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when he got dry

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And brush away the blue tail fly

Verse 3

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Jimmy, crack corn, I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn an_ d I don't care

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My master's gone away

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Verse 4

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Fdim

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And when he'd ride in the af_ ternoon

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I'd follow after, with a hickory broom

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Fdim

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The pony being rather shy

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When bitten by blue tail fly

Verse 5

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Jimmy, crack corn, I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn an_ d I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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My master's gone away

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One day, he

Verse 6

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ride around the farm

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The flies so numerous, they did swarm

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One chanced to bite him on the thigh

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The devil take the blue tail fly

Verse 7

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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My master's gone away

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Interlude 1

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Verse 8

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Fdim

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The pony run, he jumped,

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he pitch

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He threw my master in the ditch

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Abm

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He died and the jury wondered why

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The verdict was the blue tail fly

Verse 9

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Jimmy, crack corn, I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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My master's gone away

Verse 10

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Fdim

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Abm

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They lay him under a 'simmon tree

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His epitaph is there to see

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"Be_ neath this stone,

Abm

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I'm forced to lie

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Victim of the blue tail fly"

Verse 11

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Jimmy, crack corn an_ d I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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Jimmy, crack corn and I don't care

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My master's gone away

Outro 1

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Abm

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Chords

Eb
Ab
Fm
F
Bb
Fdim
Ddim
G
Cm
Abm
Dm

Capo: 1

Transpose: 0

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