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Artist: Bill Monroe
Canonical path: /bill-monroe/cotton-eye-joe
Related lyric paths: 6
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Cotton Eye Joe
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Cotton Eye Joe
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Cotton Eye Joe
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'ld been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe
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He came to town like a midwinter storm
He rode through the fields so hansome and strong
His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun
But all he had come for was having some fun
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He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to hell broken sent
They all run away so nobody would know
and left only men cause of Cotton-Eye Joe
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Bill Monroe performs "Cotton Eye Joe", and this lyric page sits inside the Bill Monroe catalog on LyroVerse.
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