The farmer said to the boll weevil, "You're right up on this square."
Boll weevil said to the farmer, "My whole family's there.
I have a home, I have a home."
You get out your barrel of poison, scatter it upon the row
Boll weevil said to the farmer, "You scatter your poison, though,
I have a home, I have a home."
Gonna ease you up to my parcel, gonna cover the grubs all up
Boll weevil said to the farmer, "I doodle myself right up,
I have a home, I have a home."
Boll weevil said to the lightnin' bug, "Can I get up a trade with you?
If I was lightnin' bug I'd work the whole night through,
All night long, all night long."
"Yes, don't you see us creatuhs now have done you wrong"
"Boll weevil's got my cotton and the merchant's got my corn,
Shall I do? I've got the blues."
Boll weevil said to the merchant, "Better drink your cold lemonade.
When I get through with you, gwine drag you out of that shade.
I have a home, I have a home."
Boll weevil said to the farmer, "You'll fly a Ford machine
When I get through with the farmer, can't buy no gasoline."
"What shall I do? Boll weevil blues"
Boll weevil said to the doctor, "You gotta pull out all of them pills.
When I get through with the farmer, can't pay no doctor bills,
I have a home, I have a home."
Boll weevil said to the preacher, "You better pull up your tent show.
When I get through with the farmer, can't pay no preacher no more,
I have a home, I have a home."
Boll weevil said to the farmer, "I set you on the gate.
When I get through with the farmer, he sell the Cadillac 8,
To have a home, I have a home."
Boll weevil said to his wife, "You got to stand up on your feet.
Look-a-way down here in Georgy, is the cotton we've got to eat,
All night long, all day, too."
SOLO
The farmer said to the boll weevil, "I wish you all's well."
The farmer said to the boll weevil, "I wish you all ------"
I have a home, I have a home