<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Minstrel, folk </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Traditional </Td> </Tr> <P> "Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels . It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song . Over the years, several variants have appeared . </P> <P> Most versions include some idiomatic African English, although sanitized General American versions now predominate . The basic narrative remains intact . On the surface, the song is a black slave's lament over his white master's death in a horseriding accident . The song, however, can be--and is--interpreted as having a subtext of celebration about that death and of the slaves having contributed to it through deliberate negligence or even deniable action . </P>

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