Dan Emmett's "Jimmy Crack Corn"

[Sam Clements]

What was the "Emmett version?"

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From: "Jim Parish" <jparish at SIUE.EDU>
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> 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
>