Lyrics and translation Pete Seeger - The Blue Tailed Fly (Remastered)
When
I
was
young
I
used
to
wait
Quand
j'étais
jeune,
j'attendais
On
my
master
and
give
him
his
plate
Mon
maître
et
lui
donnais
son
assiette
And
pass
the
bottle
when
he
got
dry
Et
passais
la
bouteille
quand
il
avait
soif
And
brush
away
the
blue-tail
fly
Et
chassais
la
mouche
à
queue
bleue
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
My
master's
gone
away
Mon
maître
est
parti
And
when
he'd
ride
in
the
afternoon
Et
quand
il
chevauchait
le
cheval
dans
l'après-midi
I'd
follow
with
a
hickory
broom
Je
le
suivais
avec
un
balai
en
noyer
The
pony
being
rather
shy
Le
poney
étant
plutôt
timide
When
bitten
by
a
blue-tail
fly
Lorsqu'une
mouche
à
queue
bleue
le
piquait
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
My
master's
gone
away
Mon
maître
est
parti
One
day
he
rode
around
the
farm
Un
jour,
il
a
fait
le
tour
de
la
ferme
à
cheval
The
flies
so
numerous
they
did
swarm
Les
mouches
étaient
si
nombreuses
qu'elles
ont
essaimé
One
chanced
to
bite
him
on
the
thigh
L'une
d'elles
l'a
piqué
à
la
cuisse
The
devil
take
the
blue-tail
fly
Que
le
diable
emporte
la
mouche
à
queue
bleue
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
My
master's
gone
away
Mon
maître
est
parti
The
pony
jump,
he
tassy
pitch
Le
poney
a
sauté,
il
a
lancé
He
threw
my
master
in
the
ditch
Il
a
jeté
mon
maître
dans
le
fossé
He
died
and
the
jury
wondered
why
Il
est
mort
et
le
jury
s'est
demandé
pourquoi
The
verdict
was
the
blue-tail
fly
Le
verdict
a
été
la
mouche
à
queue
bleue
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
My
master's
gone
away
Mon
maître
est
parti
He
lies
beneath
the
'simmon
tree
Il
repose
sous
le
plaqueminier
His
epitaph
is
there
to
see
Son
épitaphe
est
là
pour
être
vue
"Beneath
this
stone
I'm
forced
to
lie
"Sous
cette
pierre,
je
suis
forcé
de
rester
The
victim
of
a
blue-tail
fly"
Victime
d'une
mouche
à
queue
bleue"
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
My
master's
gone
away
Mon
maître
est
parti
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
Jimmy
crack
corn,
and
I
don't
care
Jimmy
craque
le
maïs,
et
je
m'en
moque
My
master's
gone
away
Mon
maître
est
parti
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66 Careless Love (Remastered)
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75 Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Remastered)
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77 The Titanic Disaster (Remastered)
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81 Down in the Valley (Remastered)
82 The Blue Tailed Fly (Remastered)
83 Yankee Doodle (Remastered)
84 Cielito Lindo (Remastered)
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3 Tina Singu (Remastered)
4 Roll On Columbia (Remastered)
5 Great Getting Up Morning (Remastered)
6 Teachers Blues (Remastered)
7 Poisoning the Student's Mind (Remastered)
8 Drink's Song (Remastered)
9 The Dodger Song (Remastered)
10 There Is Mean Things Happening in (Remastered)
11 John Riley (Remastered)
12 She Moves Through the Fair (Remastered)
13 Hold On (Keep Your Hands On the Plow - Remastered)
14 Reuben James (Remastered)
15 The Ladies Auxiliary (Remastered)
16 The Butcher Boy (Remastered)
17 Theme from Goofin' Off Suite / Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring / Duet from Symphony No 7 (Remastered)
18 We Are Moving On to Victory (Remastered)
19 Five Fingers (Remastered)
20 The Dove (Remastered)
21 There's Better Thing to Do (Remastered)
22 The Many Colored Paper (Remastered)
23 Horizontal Lines (Remastered)
24 Travelin' (Remastered)
25 Seek and You Shall Find / Fare Well, Little Fishes / Where Have All the Flowers Gone? / Fu-Ru-Sato (Never Again Shall We Allow Another Atom Bomb to Fall) / Step By Step / Joe Hill's Last Will [Remastered]
26 On Ikley Moor Baht At (Remastered)
27 Bourgeouis Blues (Remastered)
28 Green Corn (Remastered)
29 Los Quatros Generalas (Remastered)
30 Hey Zhankoye (Remastered)
31 Twelve Gates to the City (Remastered)
32 Open the Door / Road to Athay / Why Do Scotsmen? / Hold Up Your Petticoat / Oh, There's Two On My Back (Remastered)
33 Colorado Trail / Spanish Is the Loving Tongue / From Here On Up / Texas Girls / Swarthmore Girls / We Pity Our Bosses Five / The Scabs Crawl In (Remastered)
34 Bard of Armagh (Remastered)
35 Conversation With a Mule (Remastered)
36 The Country Fiddle C (Remastered)
37 The Country Fiddle B (Remastered)
38 The Country Fiddle a (Remastered)
39 Indian Summer (Remastered)
40 Gypsy Davy (Remastered)
41 The Three Butchers (Remastered)
42 Jay Goulds Daughter (Remastered)
43 Buffalo Gals (Remastered)
44 Jesse James (Remastered)
45 Down in Carlisle (In Castyle There Lived a Lady - Remastered)
46 St James Hospital (Remastered)
47 Treat My Daughter Kindly (Remastered)
48 Hoedown's - Leather Britches / Sally Goodin (Remastered)
49 The Wreck of Ol' 97 (Remastered)
50 Farmer's Curst Wife (Remastered)
51 Let Me Take a Ride (Remastered)
52 The Wagoners Lad (Remastered)
53 Arkansas Traveler (Remastered)
54 Old Dan Tucker (Remastered)
55 Let's All Join In (Remastered)
56 Oh Mary Don't You Weep (Remastered)
57 Kumbaya (Remastered)
58 So Long It's Been Good to Know Yo (Remastered)
59 I Ride an Old Paint (Remastered)
60 Sinner Man (Remastered)
61 On Top of Old Smokey (Remastered)
62 Clean-O (Remastered)
63 Home On the Range (Remastered)
64 The Demi Song (Remastered)
65 Queen Anne Front (Remastered)
66 Careless Love (Remastered)
67 Don't You Weep After Me (Remastered)
68 Abiyoyo (Remastered)
69 Oh, Had I a Golden Thread (Remastered)
70 Letter to Eve (Remastered)
71 To Everyone in All the World (Remastered)
72 The Wabash Cannonball (Remastered)
73 Frankie & Johnny (Remastered)
74 The Golden Vanity (Remastered)
75 Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Remastered)
76 John Henry (Remastered)
77 The Titanic Disaster (Remastered)
78 John Hardy (Remastered)
79 Pretty Polly (Remastered)
80 Barbara Allen (Remastered)
81 Down in the Valley (Remastered)
82 The Blue Tailed Fly (Remastered)
83 Yankee Doodle (Remastered)
84 Cielito Lindo (Remastered)
85 The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Remastered)
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