Dan Emmett's "Jimmy Crack Corn"

[Jim Parish]

Sam Clements asked:
> What was the "Emmett version?"

I assume it was the 1844 version, from _Old Dan Emmit's Original
Banjo Melodies_.

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> From: "Jim Parish" <jparish at SIUE.EDU>
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> Subject: Re: Dan Emmett's "Jimmy Crack Corn"
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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
> >