Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Charlie Patton

Sees a little boll weevil keeps movin' in the lordie

You can plant your cotton

And you won't get a half a bale lordie

Bo weevil bo weevil

Where's your native home lordie

A Louisiana raised in Texas

Least is where I was bred and born lordie

Well I saw the bo weevil

Lord a circle lord in the air lordie

The next time I seed him

Lord he had his family there lordie

Bo weevil left Texas lord

He bid me fare ye well lordie

Where you goin' now

I'm goin' down the Mississippi

Gonna give Louisiana hell lordie

How is that boy the get to play lordie

Hay life one

Suck all the blossoms and

He leave your hedges square lordie

The next time I seed you

You know you had your family there lordie

Bo weevil meet his wife

We can sit down on the hill lordie

Bo weevil told his wife

Let's trade this forty3 in lordie

Bo weevil told his wife

Says I believe I may go north lordie

Hold on I'm gonna tell all about that

Let's leave Louisiana

We can go to Arkansas lordie

Well I saw the bo weevil

Lord a circle lord in the air lordie

Next time I seed him lord

He had his family there lordie

Bo weevil told the farmer

That I' tain't got ticket fare lordie

Sucks all the blossom

And leave your hedges square lordie

Bo weevil bo weevil

Where your native home lordie

Most anywhere they raise cotton and corn lordie

Bo weevil bo weevil

Outta treat me fair lordie

The next time I did you had your family there lordie