Jimmy Crack(-ed?/-s?) Corn

[sagehen]

 Peter writes:
Someone -- might have been Pete Seeger, but don't actually remember -- told
us it was simply a corruption of "Gimme cracked corn," which makes
perfectly good sense with the following lines. "Cracked corn" might be
either an actual or metaphorical reference to something poor or inferior
but nonetheless better than having Massa around.
AM

A&M Murie
N. Bangor NY
sagehen at westelcom.com