{"id":8113,"date":"2016-10-01T08:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8113"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:03:53","slug":"blue-tail-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8113","title":{"rendered":"Blue Tail Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Blue_Tail_Fly.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Blue_Tail_Fly.mp3\"> Blue Tail Fly &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis is an authentic version of a classic song once sung by minstrel groups in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[G] Oh when you come in [C] summer time,<br \/>\n[G] To South Carlina&#8217;s [D] sultry clime,<br \/>\n[G] If in the shade you [C] chance to lie,<br \/>\n[D] You&#8217;ll soon find out the [G] blue tail fly,<\/p>\n<p>CH: [G] And scratch him with a [D] brier too<br \/>\nAnd scratch him with a [G] brier too<br \/>\nAnd scratch him with a [C] brier too<br \/>\n[D] The old man&#8217;s gone [G] away<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s many kind of these here things,<br \/>\nFrom diff&#8217;rent sort of insects springs;<br \/>\nSome hatch in June, and some July,<br \/>\nBut August fetches the blue tail fly,<\/p>\n<p>When I was young, I used to wait<br \/>\nOn the old man&#8217;s table and hand the plate;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d pass the bottle when he got dry,<br \/>\nAnd brush away the blue tail fly.<\/p>\n<p>Then after dinner when the old man&#8217;d sleep,<br \/>\nHe bid me vigilance to keep;<br \/>\nAnd when he going to shut his eye,<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d tell me watch the blue tail fly.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;d ride in the afternoon,<br \/>\nI follow with a hickory broom;<br \/>\nThe poney being very shy,<br \/>\nWhen bitten by the blue tail fly.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0192<br \/>\nOne day he rode around the farm,<br \/>\nThe flies so numerous did swarm;<br \/>\nOne chanced to bite him on the thigh,<br \/>\nThe devil take that blue tail fly.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0192<br \/>\nThe pony run, he jump, and pitch,<br \/>\nAnd tumble the old man in the ditch;<br \/>\nHe died, and the Jury wondered why,<br \/>\nThe verdict was, the &#8220;blue tail fly.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0192<br \/>\nThey laid him under a simmon tree,<br \/>\nHis epitaph is there to see;<br \/>\nBeneath this stone I&#8217;m forced to lie,<br \/>\nAll by the means of the blue tail fly.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0192<br \/>\nThe old man&#8217;s gone, now let him rest,<br \/>\nThey say all things are for the best;<br \/>\nI never shall forget till the day I die,<br \/>\nThe old man and the blue tail fly.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0192<br \/>\nThe hornet gets in your eyes and nose,<br \/>\nThe skeeter bites you through your clothes,<br \/>\nThe gallinipper sweet and high,<br \/>\nBut \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcworser&#8217; yet the blue tail fly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? 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