Lyr. Add: Boll Weevil Blues
O. Johnson, c. 1940.

Farmer said to the boll weevil,
"I see you're on the square."
Boll weevil said to the farmer,
"And my whole family's there;
I have a home, I have a home.
2
"Look up your bar'l o'pizen,
And scatter it on the row,"
Boll weevil said to the farmer;
"You scatter pizen, though
I have a home, I have a home."
3
Boll weevil said to the lightning bug,
"Kin I get up a trade with you?
Ef I wuz a lightning bug
I'd work the whole night through,
All night long, all night long."
4
"Don't you see how them creeturs
Now have done me wrong?
Boll weevil's got my cotton
And the merchant's got my corn.
What shall I do? What shall I do?"
5
Boll weevil said to the merchant,
"Better drink yo' cold lemonade;
When I get thru with you
Gwine drag you out o' the shade-
I have a home! I have a home!"
6
Boll weevil said to the doctor,
"Better po' out all them pills;
When I get through with the farmer
He can't pay no doctor's bills-
I have a home! I have a home!"
7
Boll weevil said to the preacher,
"Better shet your church house door;
When I get through with the farmer
He can't pay the preacher no more-
I have a home! I have a home!"
8
Boll weevil said to the farmer,
"Better sell your old machine;
When I get thru with you
You can't buy no gasoline-
I have a home! I have a home!"
9
Boll weevil said to his wife,
"Better stan' up on your feet
'N look way down here in Georgy
At all the cotton we got to eat-
All night long, and all day too!"
10
Boll weevil said to the farmer,
"I wisht that you wuz well."
Farmer said to the boll weevil,
"I wisht you wuz in hell!"
Boll weevil blues! Boll weevil blues!

No. 214, H. M. Belden and A. P. Hudson, 1952, "Folk Songs from North Carolina," vol. 3, Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore.