{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1862542,"song":"Boll Weevil Song","artist":"Brook Benton","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11414996-boll-weevil-song-chords-by-brook-benton/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1862542?type=chord","rating":4.21954,"votes":3,"content":"Boll Weevil Song:Brook Benton.\r\n#2 on BB Hot 100 on Mercury Records\r\nin 1961. (Most popular song he ever\r\nrecorded.)\r\n\r\n\r\nINTRO: [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]------------------------------------\r\n------------------------------------\r\n------------------------------------\r\n------0-----2----3-0----------------\r\n----3----3------------3-0-----------\r\n---------------------------1--------[/tab]\r\n\r\n#1.\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nLet me tell you a story about a boll weevil.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Dm7[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNow, some of you may not know, but a boll [/tab]\r\n\r\nweevil is an insect and he's found mostly \r\n\r\nwhere cotton grows.\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]Dm7[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNow, where they come from, hm, nobody really [/tab]\r\n\r\nknows..but this is the way the story goes.\r\n\r\n#2.\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]Dm7[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe farmer said to the boll weevil, I see [/tab]\r\n\r\nyou're on the square.\r\n[tab][ch]Dm7[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]Dm7[/ch]\r\nBoll weevil said to the farmer, say yep, my [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nwhole darn family's here.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Dm7[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe gotta have a home, gotta have a home.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#3.\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe farmer said to the boll weevil, say, why [/tab]\r\n\r\ndo you pick my farm?\r\n\r\nThe weevil just laughed at the farmer and said,\r\n[tab][ch]Dm7[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nwe ain't gonna do ya much harm.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nWe're lookin' for a home-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\noooo-ho-ho-ome.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#4.\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm7[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe said, hey, I'd like to make a trade with you.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCause, you see if I was a lightning bug, I'd search \r\n\r\nthe whole night through.\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Fm[/ch]          [ch]Dm7[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSearchin' for a home..I'd have me plenty of home.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#5.\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the boll weevil called the farmer, and he said,[/tab]\r\n\r\nyou better sell your old machines.\r\n[tab][ch]Dm7[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nCause when I'm through with your cotton, heh, you [/tab]\r\n\r\ncan't even buy gasoline.\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI'm gonna take me a home, gotta have a home.[/tab]\r\n\r\n#6.\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                             [ch]Dm7[/ch]\r\nAnd the boll weevil said to the farmer, said, Mr. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nfarmer, I'd like to wish you well.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]Dm7[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFarmer said to the boll weevil, yeah, and I wish [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nthat you were in ---- lookin' for a home, lookin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nfor a home.[/tab]\r\n\r\nOUTRO:\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\n(Ahh, you'd have a home all right, you'd have a home.[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\n A real hot home, ahhh..you'd have a home..)..(Fade.)[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.","plain_text":"Boll Weevil Song:Brook Benton.\n#2 on BB Hot 100 on Mercury Records\nin 1961. (Most popular song he ever\nrecorded.)\n\n\nINTRO: C F\n\n\n\n#1.\n\n\n\nweevil is an insect and he's found mostly \n\nwhere cotton grows.\n\n\nknows..but this is the way the story goes.\n\n#2.\n\n\nyou're on the square.\n\n\n\n\n#3.\n\n\ndo you pick my farm?\n\nThe weevil just laughed at the farmer and said,\n\n\n\n\n#4.\n\n\n\nCause, you see if I was a lightning bug, I'd search \n\nthe whole night through.\n\n\n#5.\n\n\nyou better sell your old machines.\n\n\ncan't even buy gasoline.\n\n\n#6.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOUTRO:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.","chords":["C","F","Dm7","Bb","Fm","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"Fm":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,1,1,1]}}}