Dan Emmett's "Jimmy Crack Corn"

[Jim Parish]

For what it's worth, the following is from the notes in the Library of
America's _American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, vol. 2_.

"Jim Crack... Fly] The song apparently formed part of the repertoire of
Daniel Decatur Emmett's Virginia Minstrels; it was published in _Old
Dan Emmit's Original Banjo Melodies_ (second series) (Boston: Keith's,
1844), but it is not known whether Emmett actually composed it. The
version printed [in the LoA volume] was published in 1846 by F. D.
Benteen of Baltimore, with no author credited; it contains the chorus
'Jim crack corn I don't care,' missing from the Emmett version."

Jim Parish