Brook Benton The Boll Weevil Song Lyrics

The Boll Weevil Song Lyrics

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.