Cracking corn is a valid job on a farm, just something the help would be doing anyways. The character that is supposedly signing this song was accused of killing his master. (It is obvious from the other lyrics that this is a young slave boy) There was a trial and the verdict was that the old master's death was attributable to the irritation inflicted on a donkey by the blue-tailed fly. The slave boy is therefore returned to his former work of cracking corn and is no longer under the fear of execution - so you can see why he doesn't have any cares any more.
The lyrics to "Jimmy Crack Corn" are: "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."
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It was a type of whiskey. Jimmy (the slave) cracked open a bottle of the master's corn whiskey and didn't care because the master went away (he died, fell of the horse)
Jimmy crack corn
Jimmy crack corn.
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I think the song you mean is "Jimmy cracked corn and I don't care." I think it's a folk song.
It's a song -- it's "JIMMY cracked corn, and I don't care." It is a nonsense line about a guy named Jimmy -- he cracked some corn (broke open the kernels to make grits or bread or something) and you don't care that he did.
I want to take a shot at the phrase 'jimmie crack corn and I don't care' it means give me cracked corn which would be boiled cracked corn similar to oatmeal.
I want to take a shot at the phrase 'jimmie crack corn and I don't care' it means give me cracked corn which would be boiled cracked corn similar to oatmeal.
From the book "Underground to Canada". Stories of the underground Railroad. the song is located at the end of chapter 4. It was by Babette Reeves. http://www.garageband.com/mp3player? |pe1|WdjZPXLrvP2rYVW-Z2hmAQ
I have never found an official answer to this but my own speculation has lead me to believe that "Cracking corn" is probably a euphemism for flatulence. (Imagine the sound of grinding rock hard dried corn kernels)