Popular Culture References
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.
Tom Lehrer's satirical "The Folk Song Army" states:
- There are innocuous folk songs,
- But we regard 'em with scorn.
- The folks who sing 'em have no social conscience,
- Why, they don't even care if Jimmy crack 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!"
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