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Old minstrel tune. Burl Ives recorded it in 1944 and is one of the tracks on his album The Wayfaring Stranger.

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When I was young I used to wait
On my master and hand him his plate,
And pass the bottle when he got dry,
And brush away the blue-tail fly

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,
My master's gone away.

And when he'd ride in the afternoon,
I'd follow with a hickory broom,
The pony being rather shy
When bitten by the blue-tail fly.

One day he ride around the farm,
The flies so numerous they did swarm,
One chanced to bite him on the thigh,
The devil take the blue-tail fly.

The pony jumped, he tossed, he pitched,
He threw my master in the ditch,
He died and the jury wondered "why",
The verdict was the blue-tail fly.

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from From Over There to Over Here 1 - USA & England, released November 4, 2014
Recorded and produced by Hrvoje Nikšić at Kramasonik studio, Zagreb

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Dunja Knebl Zagreb, Croatia

I have recorded 16 albums of less known or forgotten traditional Croatian folk songs released by different labels as compact discs, 3 of which are on BC. Here you can also find my recordings of folk songs from some other countries I have lived in (free download), some live concerts from the past (free download), and my singer-songwriter album Love Li(v)es. ... more

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