Thanks, Richard. That brandy slid down easy! Another?

As for the philosophical meaning of "Jimmy Crack Corn", I think it's up there with David Allen Coe's perfect country song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name" and "Margaritaville."

My son Carl (when he was 3 or 4 years old) would laugh uncontollably every time I got to the "I don't care" part. He loved "Old Dan Tucker" too, as I recall.

I learned to play guitar with a Pete Seeger book of folk songs.