 The Boll Weevil Song lyrics ( Brook Benton )   
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Artist : Brook Benton
Song : The Boll Weevil Song
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"
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" 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"
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." 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 ****" 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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