Boll Weavil Song
Ronald E. Hontz
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bjc wrote:
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> Anybody know the lyrics for the above?
Yep--just went thru a Brook Benton phase a few weeks ago.
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The Boll Weevil Song
- Artist: Brook Benton as sung on "The Satin Sound Brook Benton"
- Suffolk Marketing-SMI 2
- peak Billboard position # 2 in 1961
- NOT to be confused with the Fats Domino-written "Bo Weevil" that was charted
in 1956 at # 17 by Teresa Brewer and # # 35 by Domino
- Words and Music by Brook Benton and Clyde Otis
Transcriber's note: all words are spoken EXCEPT those in < > which are sung.
Let me tell ya a story about a boll weevil
Now, some of you may not know, but a boll weevil is an insect. And he's found
mostly where cotton grows. Now, where he comes from, hm, nobody really knows.
But this is the way the story goes.
The farmer said to the boll weevil "I see you're on the square" Boll weevil said to
the farmer "Say yep! My whole darn family's here"
<We gotta have a home, gotta have a home>
The farmer said to the boll weevil "Say, why do you pick my farm?" The weevil just
laughed at the farmer 'n' said "We ain't gonna do ya much harm"
<We're looking for a ho-o-o-o-o,-o-o-o, -o-o-o, o-o-ome"
And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug. He said "Hey, I'd like to make a trade
with you. But, ya see if I was a lightning bug, I'd search the whole night through"
<Searchin' for a home, I'd have me plenty of home"
And the boll weevil called the farmer, 'n' he said "Ya better sell your old machines,
'cause when I'm through with your cotton, heh, you can't even buy gasoline."
<I'm gonna stake me a home, gotta have a home>
And the boll weevil said to the farmer, said " Farmer, I'd like to wish you well."
Farmer said to the boll weevil, "Yeah, an' I wish that you were in ****"
<Lookin' for a home, lookin' for a home>
(Ahh, you have a home all right, you have a home)
(A real hot home, ahhh
FADE
Transcribed by Robin Hood
These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.
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