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"

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