Boll Weevil Song chords by
Tex Ritter

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

D

D

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G

G

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Oh, the boll weevil am

a little black bug

Come from Mexico, they say, uh huh

Come all the way to Texas

Lookin' for a place to stay

D

D

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Jus' a- lookin' for a home

G

G

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Jus' a- lookin' for a home

Verse 2

G

G

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Now the first time I see the boll weevil

He's a sittin' on the square

Next time I see the boll weevil

Got all o' his family there

D

D

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Jus' a- lookin' for a home

G

G

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Jus' a- lookin' for a home

Verse 3

G

G

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The farmer say to the weevil

"What make your head so red?"

Weevil say to the farmer

"It's a wonder I ain't dead

D

D

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Lookin' for a home, boss

G

G

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Jus' a- Iookin' for a home"

Interlude 1

G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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Verse 4

G

G

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The farmer take the weevil

Put him in the red hot fire

Weevil say to the farmer

"Hey, ah ah; hey ah ah"

D

D

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It'll be my home, yessir

It'll be my home"

G

G

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Verse 5

G

G

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The cap'n say to the missus

"What do you think of that?

Boll weevil done made a nest

In my best Sunday hat"

Gonna have a home

Gonna have a home

Verse 6

G

G

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The boll weevil got half the cotton

The merchant got the rest

Didn't leave the farmer's wife

D

D

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But one old cotton dress

And it full o' holes

It a- full o' holes

G

G

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Now

Verse 7

if anybody should ax ya

Who it was that a- made this song

Tell 'em to the dark complected fella

With a pair o' blue duckins on

D

D

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Ain't got no home, no sir

G

G

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Ain' t a- got no home

Po' boy

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