[00:00.00]The Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton
[00:09.32]Let me tell ya a story about a boll weevil
[00:13.24]Now some of you may not know
[00:16.54]But a boll weevil is an insect
[00:20.18]And he's found mostly
[00:21.14]Where cotton grows
[00:24.44]Now where he comes from hm
[00:28.49]Nobody really knows
[00:31.98]But this is the way the story goes
[00:38.25]The farmer said to the boll weevil
[00:41.86]I see you're on the square
[00:45.55]Boll weevil said to the farmer
[00:47.84]Say yep my whole darn family's here
[00:51.45]We gotta have a home gotta have a home
[00:59.96]The farmer said to the boll weevil
[01:03.07]Say why do you pick my farm
[01:07.10]The weevil just laughed
[01:08.48]At the farmer 'n' said
[01:10.64]We ain't gonna do ya much harm
[01:13.10]We looking have a home
[01:21.42]And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug
[01:24.14]He said hey I'd like to
[01:26.03]Make a trade with you
[01:28.65]But ya see if I was a lightning bug
[01:31.94]I'd search the whole night through
[01:34.67]Seatch at a home I have be every a home
[01:43.29]And the boll weevil called the farmer
[01:45.30]'N' he said
[01:46.54]Ya better sell your old machines
[01:50.08]'Cause when I'm through with your cotton
[01:52.68]Heh you can't even buy gasoline
[01:56.09]Stake me a home gotta have a home
[02:04.56]And the boll weevil said to the farmer
[02:07.25]Said farmer
[02:08.41]I'd like to wish you well
[02:12.15]Farmer said to the boll weevil
[02:14.71]Yeah an' I wish that you were in
[02:17.60]Lookin' for a home
[02:21.22]Lookin' for a home
[02:23.81]Ahh you have a home all right
[02:28.32]You have a home