《The Boll Weevil Song》歌词

[00:00:00] The Boll Weevil Song (象鼻虫之歌) - Brook Benton (布鲁克·本顿)

[00:00:09] Let me tell ya a story about a boll weevil

[00:00:13] Now some of you may not know

[00:00:16] But a boll weevil is an insect

[00:00:20] And he's found mostly

[00:00:21] Where cotton grows

[00:00:24] Now where he comes from hm

[00:00:28] Nobody really knows

[00:00:32] But this is the way the story goes

[00:00:38] The farmer said to the boll weevil

[00:00:41] "I see you're on the square"

[00:00:45] Boll weevil said to the farmer

[00:00:47] "Say yep my whole darn family's here"

[00:00:51] We gotta have a home gotta have a home

[00:01:00] The farmer said to the boll weevil

[00:01:03] "Say why do you pick my farm"

[00:01:07] The weevil just laughed

[00:01:08] At the farmer 'n' said

[00:01:10] "We ain't gonna do ya much harm"

[00:01:13] We looking have a home

[00:01:21] And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug

[00:01:24] He said "Hey I'd like to

[00:01:26] Make a trade with you

[00:01:28] But ya see if I was a lightning bug

[00:01:32] I'd search the whole night through"

[00:01:34] Seatch at a home I have be every a home

[00:01:43] And the boll weevil called the farmer

[00:01:45] 'N' he said

[00:01:46] "Ya better sell your old machines

[00:01:50] 'Cause when I'm through with your cotton

[00:01:52] Heh you can't even buy gasoline

[00:01:55] "Stake me a home gotta have a home

[00:02:04] And the boll weevil said to the farmer

[00:02:07] Said " Farmer

[00:02:08] I'd like to wish you well"

[00:02:12] Farmer said to the boll weevil

[00:02:14] "Yeah an' I wish that you were in

[00:02:17] Lookin' for a home

[00:02:21] Lookin' for a home

[00:02:24] Ahh you have a home all right

[00:02:28] You have a home

[00:02:31] A real hot home ahhh