Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues (Live)

Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues (Live) - Charlie Patton

Written by：Charley Patton

Sees a little boll weevil keeps moving in the Lordie

You can plant your cotton and you won't get a half a bale Lordie

Bo weevil bo weevil where's your native home Lordie

A Louisiana raised in Texas

Least is where I was bred and born Lordie

Well I saw the bo weevil

Lord a circle Lord in the air Lordie

The next time I seed him

Lord he had his family there Lordie

Bo weevil left Texas

Lord he bid me fare ye well Lordie

Where you going now

I'm going down the Mississippi gonna give Louisiana hell Lordie

How is that boy

Suck all the blossoms and he leave your hedges square Lordie

The next time I seed you you know you had your family there Lordie

Bo weevil meet his wife we can sit down on the hill Lordie

Bo weevil told his wife

Let's trade this forty 3 in Lordie

Bo weevil told his wife says

I believe I may go north Lordie

Hold on I'm gonna tell all about that

Let's leave Louisiana we can go to Arkansas Lordie

Well I saw the bo weevil Lord a circle

Lord in the air Lordie

Next time I seed him

Lord he had his family there Lordie

Bo weevil told the farmer that I tain't got ticket fare Lordie

Sucks all the blossom and leave your hedges square Lordie

Bo weevil bo weevil where your native home Lordie

Most anywhere they raise cotton and corn Lordie

Bo weevil bo weevil outta treat me fair Lordie

The next time I did you had your family there Lordie