Biografia:
Brook Benton (19 de setembro de 1931 - 09 de abril de 1988) foi um cantor e compositor que era popular com o rock and roll, rhythm and blues, e as audiências da música pop durante os anos 1950 e início de 1960, quando ele teve sucessos como "É apenas uma questão de tempo "e" Infinitamente ", muitos dos quais ele co-escreveu.
Ele fez um retorno em 1970 com a balada "Rainy Night na Geórgia". Benton teve mais de 50 sucessos Billboard como um artista, e também escreveu sucessos para outros artistas.
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Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
Boll Weevil Song:Brook Benton.
#2 on BB Hot 100 on Mercury Records
in 1961. (Most popular song he ever
recorded.)
INTRO: C F
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#1.
F
Let me tell you a story about a boll weevil.
Dm7 F
Now, some of you may not know, but a boll
weevil is an insect and he's found mostly
where cotton grows.
F Dm7 F
Now, where they come from, hm, nobody really
knows..but this is the way the story goes.
#2.
F Dm7 F
The farmer said to the boll weevil, I see
you're on the square.
Dm7 F Dm7
Boll weevil said to the farmer, say yep, my
F
whole darn family's here.
C Dm7 F
We gotta have a home, gotta have a home.
#3.
F
The farmer said to the boll weevil, say, why
do you pick my farm?
The weevil just laughed at the farmer and said,
Dm7 F
we ain't gonna do ya much harm.
C Bb
We're lookin' for a home-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-
F
oooo-ho-ho-ome.
#4.
F
And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug.
Dm7 F
He said, hey, I'd like to make a trade with you.
Cause, you see if I was a lightning bug, I'd search
the whole night through.
C Fm Dm7 F
Searchin' for a home..I'd have me plenty of home.
#5.
F
And the boll weevil called the farmer, and he said,
you better sell your old machines.
Dm7 F
Cause when I'm through with your cotton, heh, you
can't even buy gasoline.
C F
I'm gonna take me a home, gotta have a home.
#6.
F Dm7
And the boll weevil said to the farmer, said, Mr.
F
farmer, I'd like to wish you well.
Dm7 F
Farmer said to the boll weevil, yeah, and I wish
C
that you were in ---- lookin' for a home, lookin'
F
for a home.
OUTRO:
C F
(Ahh, you'd have a home all right, you'd have a home.
C F
A real hot home, ahhh..you'd have a home..)..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
#2 on BB Hot 100 on Mercury Records
in 1961. (Most popular song he ever
recorded.)
INTRO: C F
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------0-----2----3-0----------------
----3----3------------3-0-----------
---------------------------1--------
#1.
F
Let me tell you a story about a boll weevil.
Dm7 F
Now, some of you may not know, but a boll
weevil is an insect and he's found mostly
where cotton grows.
F Dm7 F
Now, where they come from, hm, nobody really
knows..but this is the way the story goes.
#2.
F Dm7 F
The farmer said to the boll weevil, I see
you're on the square.
Dm7 F Dm7
Boll weevil said to the farmer, say yep, my
F
whole darn family's here.
C Dm7 F
We gotta have a home, gotta have a home.
#3.
F
The farmer said to the boll weevil, say, why
do you pick my farm?
The weevil just laughed at the farmer and said,
Dm7 F
we ain't gonna do ya much harm.
C Bb
We're lookin' for a home-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-
F
oooo-ho-ho-ome.
#4.
F
And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug.
Dm7 F
He said, hey, I'd like to make a trade with you.
Cause, you see if I was a lightning bug, I'd search
the whole night through.
C Fm Dm7 F
Searchin' for a home..I'd have me plenty of home.
#5.
F
And the boll weevil called the farmer, and he said,
you better sell your old machines.
Dm7 F
Cause when I'm through with your cotton, heh, you
can't even buy gasoline.
C F
I'm gonna take me a home, gotta have a home.
#6.
F Dm7
And the boll weevil said to the farmer, said, Mr.
F
farmer, I'd like to wish you well.
Dm7 F
Farmer said to the boll weevil, yeah, and I wish
C
that you were in ---- lookin' for a home, lookin'
F
for a home.
OUTRO:
C F
(Ahh, you'd have a home all right, you'd have a home.
C F
A real hot home, ahhh..you'd have a home..)..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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