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MINIATURE CORN WHISKEY JUG

HAND CRAFTED FOLK ART

ONE OF A KIND / OOAK

TURNED WOOD / WOODEN BOTTLE

READS: " REAL CORN 1939 LANAGAN MO ON HY 71"

WWII ERA MIDDLE AMERICANA

POST DEPRESSION

SOUVENIR MADE IN THE U.S.A.

WHIMSICAL CURIO MEASURES ABOUT 2.3/4" BY 2.1/4"

GREAT PATINA AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL.

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TURNED WOODEN LOG

FIRST BANK OF THE STUMP

READS: "THE BANK THAT JESSE JAMES ROBBED. 

LANAGAN MO ON HwY 71"

STILL BANK STANDS ABOUT 4" x 3"

LOCAL ART FLAVOR

TRAMP ART / ARTS & CRAFTS

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FYI

Blue Tail Fly", "De Blue Tail Fly", or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is thought to be a blackface minstrel song, first performed in the United States in the 1840s that remains a popular children's song today.

Over the years, many variants of text have appeared, but the basic narrative remains intact. On the surface, the song is a black slave's lament over his master's death. The song, however, has a subtext of rejoicing over that death, and possibly having caused it by deliberate negligence. Most versions at least nod to idiomatic African English, though sanitized, Standard English versions predominate today.

The blue-tail fly mentioned in the song is probably Tabanus atratus, a species of horse-fly found in the American South. As it feeds on the blood of animals such as horses and cattle, as well as humans, it constitutes a prevalent pest in agricultural regions. This species of horse-fly has a blue-black abdomen, hence the name.

Lyrics
In one early version, the idyllic (yet ironic) scene is set thus:

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.
In the two verses that follow, the singer is told to protect his master's horse from the bite of the blue-tail fly:

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 chance to bite 'im on the thigh,
De debble take dat blu tail fly.
The horse bucks and the master is killed. The slave then escapes culpability:

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.
The reference to a "jury" and a "verdic[t]" does not imply that the slave was charged with any crime. More likely, the writer refers to a coroner's inquest into the death.

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."
History and interpretation
Differing sources date "Jimmy Crack Corn" from 1844 or 1846 and differ as to who authored it. One early printing attributed it to Dan Emmett. However, at the time it was usual for the recorder of a folk song to take credit. It is also thought that it was not originally a blackface minstrel song, but rather of genuine African American origins. Unlike many minstrel songs, "Blue Tail Fly" was long popular among African Americans and was recorded by Big Bill Broonzy, among others. A celebrated live version was recorded by Burl Ives. Folk singer Pete Seeger also made the song popular. Ives and Seeger performed the song together at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in 1993, in what turned out to be Ives' last public performance.

There has been much debate over the meaning of "Jimmy Crack Corn". In the original version the lyrics read "jim crack corn". "Jim crack" or "gimcrack" means shoddily built. Additionally, "corn" is considered an American euphemism for "corn whiskey". Other possibilities include:

- "Gimcrack corn," cheap corn whiskey;
- That it refers to "cracking" open a jug of corn whiskey;
- That "crack-corn" is related to the (still-current) slang "cracker" for a rural Southern white.
- That "crack-corn" originated from the old English term "crack," meaning gossip, and that "cracking corn" was a traditional Shenandoah expression for "sitting around chitchatting."
- That the chorus refers to an overseer who, without the master, has only his bullwhip to keep the slaves in line. (This is the most popular interpretation.)[citation needed]
Most etymologists support the first interpretation, as the term "cracker" appears to predate "corn-cracking". Also, "whipcracker" has no historical backing. This suggests that, in the chorus, the slaves may be making whiskey and celebrating.

It is also said that Pete Seeger once maintained that the true lyrics were "gimmie cracked corn; I don't care", referencing a punishment in which a slave's rations were reduced to cracked corn and nothing else. In this case, the author would seem to have decided that this severe punishment would be worth the outcome: the death of the master.

Another interpretation is that "jimmy" was slang for a crow and that the phrase refers to crows being allowed feed in the cornfields. Normally it would have been a boy slave's responsibility to keep crows out of the corn.

The minstrel song from the same era (1840) "Jim Along, Josey" by Edward Harper may be used as a reference. In it "Jim Along" was probably the equivalent of the phrase "Get a-long", which Harper employs in the chorus of this song "Hey, get a-long, get a-long, Josey".

Hey, get a-long, Jim a-long, Jo!
Hey, get a-long, get a-long Josey,
Hey, get a-long, Jim a-long Jo!
[edit] Uses in popular culture
Abraham Lincoln was an admirer of the tune, calling it "that buzzing song". It is likely he played it on his harmonica and it is said that he asked for it to be played at Gettysburg.

An instrumental version of the song, entitled "Beatnik Fly", was released by Johnny and the Hurricanes in 1960.

Eminem has a song off his Shady Records compilation album, Eminem Presents The Re-Up called "Jimmy Crack Corn," which features his labelmate 50 Cent. It was the second single off the album.

Actress Vanessa Redgrave sings "Jimmy Cracked Corn"/"Blue Tail Fly" in one of the opening scenes to the Merchant-Ivory film of Edward Albee's adaptation of Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. It is used in direct juxtaposition to the spiritual "In the Garden", underscoring Miss Amelia's non-religious concerns (as compared to the near-mysticism of the local preacher, played by Rod Steiger).

Bugs Bunny sang it, albeit in his well-known New York accent, in the Warner Bros. cartoon short Lumber Jack-Rabbit.

When performing their version of the song on the album The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers, Tom Smothers continually sings, "I don't care, and I don't care...", and when Dick Smothers tells him those aren't the lyrics, Tom replies, "I don't care."

Bender sings a version of the song in the Futurama episode "Bendin' in The Wind" in which he replaces Jimmy with Fry, Leela, and Bender.

Fry cracked corn and I don't care
Leela cracked corn I still don't care
Bender cracked corn and he is great!
Take that, you stupid corn!
In the Bizarro comic strip featured in newspapers, a sheriff takes a child whose jersey reads "Jimmy" to a man's doorway. He tells the man, "I caught this little rascal crackin' your corn again." The man, holding a banjo, says, "How many times I gotta tell you, sheriff? I DON'T CARE!"

The song raised some controversy when a small part of it was used in a December, 2006 Cingular Wireless commercial. A person holding a phone conversation was talking to someone (unseen) named "Jim" and was referring to him by every variant of "Jim" that he could think of ("Jimbo", "Jimmy boy", "Jimmy crack corn..."). The sequence was edited out because of several complaints. Cingular stated that, although it only received a "half dozen complaints", it did not want to offend anybody who may have thought that the commercial was inappropriate.

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Moonshine (also called white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, and many other names) is an illegally produced distilled beverage. The word is believed to derive from early English smugglers and illegal Appalachian distillers who clandestinely (i.e., by the light of the moon) produced and distributed whiskey.

Moonshine is any distilled spirit made in an unlicensed still. As with all distilled spirits, yeast ferments a sugar source to produce ethanol, then the alcohol is extracted through distillation using a still.

Because of its illegal nature, moonshine is rarely aged in barrels like proper whiskey, and it sometimes contains impurities and off flavors. On rare occasions, it may contain dangerous levels of toxic alcohols such as methanol. The off flavors may come from improper mashing, fermentation and/or distillation. In popular culture, moonshine is usually presented as being extremely strong and in North America is commonly associated with the Southern United States, Appalachia and Atlantic Canada.

Moonshining is usually done using small-scale stills. Typically, the still is built by the moonshine producer, thus avoiding the legal ramifications of obtaining a still commercially. The pot still is made of copper or stainless steel, and a water filled barrel with a copper tubing coil for a condenser, is the traditional type of still, being popular with early moonshine producers due to its simplicity and ease of construction. More efficient reflux stills are available to the modern moonshiner, either self-built, assembled from a kit, or purchased fully assembled. Lately, do-it-yourself still designs have become widely available on the Internet. "Moonshine" and "Still Making Moonshine" are two documentaries that depict the life of a modern Appalachian moonshiner, the making of a three stage still out of sheets of copper, putting up corn mash, and running whiskey.

Moonshine is referenced in many works, including books, motion pictures, musical lyrics and television.

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