Jimmy Crack Corn

Big old owl with eyes so bright
on many a dark and starry night
I’ve often heard my true love say
Sing all night and sleep all day

(Chorus)
Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care
Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care
Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care
Old master’s gone away

Said the sheldrake to the crane
“When do you think we’ll have some rain
The field’s so muddy and the brook so dry
If it weren’t for the tadpoles we’d all die” (repeat chorus)

Said the blackbird to the crow
“Down to the cornfield let us go
Pulling up corn has been our trade
Ever since Adam and Eve was made” (repeat chorus)

When I was young I used to wait
On master and serve him his plate
Pass around the bottle when he got dry
And brush away the blue tail fly (repeat chorus twice)