Boll Weevil

Boll Weevil - Pete Seeger

Written by：Ledbetter/Lomax

Have you heard the latest

Latest of the song

'Bout that little boll weevil

He done been there and gone

Lookin' for a home

Lookin' for a home

Boll weevil he's a little black

Buck from Mexico they say

Came all the way to Texas

Lookin' for a place to stay

Lookin' for a home

Just alookin' for a home home home

Alookin' for a home

Just alookin' for a home

The first time I seen the boll weevil

He was settin' on the square

The next time I seen the boll weevil

He had his whole d**n family there

He alookin' for a home

He alookin' for a home home home

Alookin' for a home

He alookin' for a home

Well the farmer took the boll weevil

He put him in a cake of ice

The boll weevil said to the farmer

This is mighty cool and nice

This be my home

This be my home

Well the farmer took the boll weevil

And he put him in the hot sand

The boll weevil said

This is mighty hot

But I'll stand it like a man

It be my home

It be my home home home

It be my home

It be my home

The boll weevil said to the farmer

You better leave me alone

I ate all you cotton

Now I'm going satert in on your corn

I'm lookin' for home

I'm lookin' for home home home

I'm lookin' for home

I'm lookin' for home

The farmer said to his missus

What you think of that

The boll weevil's gone

And ate a hole in my best Sunday hat

Is lookin' for home

Is lookin' for home

Farmer said to the merchant

I ain't made but one bale

For I give you that one

Fight fight and go to jail

I'll keep my home

I'll keep my home

Oh the boll weevil's got half the cotton

And the merchant's got the rest

Didn't leave the farmer's wife

But one old cotton dress

And it's full of holes

It's full of holes

It's full of holes

It's full of holes

Now if anyone should ask you

Who was it made this song

Tell him a poor old farmer

He done been there and gone

He ain't got no home

He ain't got no home

He ain't got no home

He ain't got no home