Bugs Bunny sings "Jimmy Crack Corn" which may have originally been a strange sort of slave freedom song (well, it was a crime for a slave to escape or kill his owner... so he blames the blue tailed fly?)...
Lyrics from Wikipedia
- When I was young I us'd to wait
- On the boss and hand him his plate;
- And Pass down the bottle when he got dry,
- And brush away the blue tail fly.
- refrain (repeated each verse):
- 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.
- An' when he ride in de afternoon,
- I foiler wid a hickory broom;
- De poney being berry shy,
- When bitten by de blue tail fly.
- One day he rode aroun' de farm,
- De flies so numerous dey did swarm;
- One chanced to bite 'im on the thigh.
- De debble take dat blue tail fly.
- De pony run, he jump an' pitch,
- An' tumble massa in de ditch;
- He died, an' de jury wonder'd why;
- De verdic was de blue tail fly.
- They buried him 'neath the sycamore tree
- His epitaph there for to see
- "Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie
- The victim of a blue-tailed Fly."
- Ol' massa's gone and I'll let him rest,
- They say all things are for the best,
- But I'll never forget 'til the day I die,
- Ol' massa and that blue-tailed fly.
- Jim crack corn, I don't care (x3)
- Ol' massa's gone away
- Jimmy cracked corn, and I don't care
- Jimmy cracked corn, and I don't care
- Jimmy cracked corn, and I don't care
- My trouble's gone away.
The Bugs Bunny cartoon above is set in the folk fairytale of the USA called Paul Bunyan, this cartoon is a more accurate version of the story:
Mel-O-Toons sometimes erroneously called "Mello Toons", was a series of animated cartoons produced in 1960 by New World Productions and syndicated by United Artists. It featured various folk tales, Greco-Roman myths, Biblical stories, some original stories by author Thornton Burgess, classic stories, even adaptations of classical music and ballet. The soundtracks were often taken from existing children's records, licensed from the original labels. 104 cartoons, each about 6 minutes long, were produced in limited animation. -From Wikipedia
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