The Boll Weevil Song-Brook Benton

[ti:The Boll Weevil Song] [ar:Brook Benton] [al:100 60s] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Boll Weevil Song (象鼻虫之歌) - Brook Benton (布鲁克·本顿) [00:09.48]Let me tell ya a story about a boll weevil [00:11.55] [00:13.38]Now some of you may not know [00:14.82] [00:16.67]But a boll weevil is an insect [00:18.69] [00:20.37]And he's found mostly [00:21.57]Where cotton grows [00:22.37] [00:24.46]Now where he comes from hm [00:27.83] [00:28.48]Nobody really knows [00:29.35] [00:32.11]But this is the way the story goes [00:36.37] [00:38.33]The farmer said to the boll weevil [00:40.28] [00:41.97]"I see you're on the square" [00:43.62] [00:45.71]Boll weevil said to the farmer [00:47.26] [00:47.96]"Say yep my whole darn family's here" [00:50.65] [00:51.71]We gotta have a home gotta have a home [00:56.31] [01:00.02]The farmer said to the boll weevil [01:02.01] [01:03.21]"Say why do you pick my farm" [01:05.25] [01:07.22]The weevil just laughed [01:08.79]At the farmer 'n' said [01:10.12] [01:10.88]"We ain't gonna do ya much harm" [01:13.23]We looking have a home [01:19.84] [01:21.53]And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug [01:23.62] [01:24.47]He said "Hey I'd like to [01:26.42]Make a trade with you [01:27.65] [01:28.80]But ya see if I was a lightning bug [01:31.24] [01:32.04]I'd search the whole night through" [01:33.99] [01:34.74]Seatch at a home I have be every a home [01:39.96] [01:43.50]And the boll weevil called the farmer [01:45.56]'N' he said [01:46.67]"Ya better sell your old machines [01:48.30] [01:50.23]'Cause when I'm through with your cotton [01:51.83] [01:52.83]Heh you can't even buy gasoline [01:55.85]"Stake me a home gotta have a home [02:01.42] [02:04.61]And the boll weevil said to the farmer [02:06.71] [02:07.40]Said " Farmer [02:08.61]I'd like to wish you well" [02:10.06] [02:12.18]Farmer said to the boll weevil [02:13.89] [02:14.84]"Yeah an' I wish that you were in [02:16.89] [02:17.70]Lookin' for a home [02:18.97] [02:21.09]Lookin' for a home [02:22.45] [02:24.00]Ahh you have a home all right [02:26.99] [02:28.42]You have a home [02:29.78] [02:31.88]A real hot home ahhh