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   Tony Rubino said, 8 months ago

   Well, why is there a song about him?
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   simpsonfan2 said, 8 months ago

   Slave, who was happy when a fly bit Master’s horse and threw him.
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   sleeepy2 said, 8 months ago

   It’s like the line in the Elton John song, “If I was a sculptor, but then again, no”. Sounds like that line shouldn’t have made it past the first edit!
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   Plods with Beer ( did I mention beer? ) said, 8 months ago

   @Tony Rubino

   So Burl Ives could make money.
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   listmom said, 8 months ago

   @Tony Rubino

   Well, according to dear ol’ Wiki the best interpretations seem to be that Gimcrack was corn whisky or that the words were originally “gimme cracked corn” which referred to the reduction in food allowance for the slave, but he didn’t care since “The Master” was now dead. Great story-telling song anyway!

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Crack_Corn
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   Citizen GROG! said, 8 months ago

   Don’t look at me, I didn’t write it.
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   detourjones said, 8 months ago

   @listmom

   another interpretation is that “blue-tail fly” is meant to be in reference to the federal troops in their blue uniforms (coats) overthrowing the slave owners…
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   Sardonis said, 8 months ago

   @Tony Rubino

   I don’t know, and I don’t care. lol
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   Redhead55 said, 8 months ago

   @Tony Rubino

   Heck if I know. But gimme cracked corn an’ a sack o’ sugar an’ we’ll be a-havin’ some sippin’ whiskey before too long.
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    Dry said, 8 months ago

    Great answers Fellow Baby and Plods! LOL!
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    Perkycat said, 8 months ago

    @Tony Rubino

    Not my area of expertise – but then I haven’t figured out what is.
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    Shirl Summ said, 8 months ago

    @Tony Rubino

    Probably not taught in todays politically correct environment but . . . the song is a black slave’s lament over his master’s death. Because where was he going to go; what was he going to do if he had no master. sad commentary on a even sadder period of our history.
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    briatollah said, 8 months ago

    I like the Smothers Brothers’ version of that song.
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    ambr95012 said, 8 months ago

    It was definitely a slave song but I thought it was about a trip not death. I remember being taught that song in school when I was little.
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    Linda Dean said, 8 months ago

    @Tony Rubino

    I refuse to care…put my portion of that cracked corn in Redheads hands to increase the yeild…lol…
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