《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

[00:00:31] 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

[00:00:59] 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

[00:01:31] 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

[00:01:56] 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

[00:02:23] Ahh you have a home all right

[00:02:28] You have a home