[Verse 1]

Boll weevil told the farmer

"You better treat me right

I'll eat up all your cotton

Sleep in your granaries tonight"

[Verse 2]

Boll weevil told the farmer

"You don't need no Ford machine

I'll eat up all your cotton

Can't buy no gasoline"

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Verse 3]

Yonder comes the spider

Crawling up and down the wall

He must've been going

To get his hash's haul

[Chorus]

I don't see no water

But I'm about to drown

Oh, I don't see no fire

But I'm burning down

[Verse 4]

Boll weevil told the farmer

"Better treat me right

I'll eat up all your cotton

Sleep in your granaries tonight"