Scratch around and you’ll find some interesting takes on this song. “Jim crack corn, I don’t care / Ole Massa gone away.” Anyway, the pony bolts, Massa pitches into the ditch and dies, and the coroner’s jury blames the blue-tail fly. One day when the flies are especially thick, one gets through and bites …well, either Massa or the pony, you can’t quite tell. A hundred years from now God knows what they’ll make of “Stairway to Heaven.” “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.
Sue me.Īs you know from this column’s previous attempts, song interpretation is not a science, and the passage of time hasn’t made things any easier.
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