Cotton Eyed Joe - Bill Monroe video free download


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Don't you remember, don't you know,

Daddy work with a man named Cotton eyed Joe,

Daddy work with a man named Cotton eyed Joe

If it hadn't a-been for Cotton eyed joe

I could have been married a long time ago,

I could have been married a long time ago

Mama's at the window, Mama's at the door,

She can't see nothin' but the Cotton-eyed Joe, She can't see nothin' but the Cotton-eyed Joe

Daddy held the fiddle, I held the bow,

We played the hell out of Cotton-eyed Joe, We played the hell out of Cotton-eyed Joe

Made himself a fiddle, Made himself a bow,

played a little tune called the Cotton-Eyed Joe, played a little tune called the Cotton-Eyed Joe

Play it fast or play it slow,

Didn't play nothing but Cotton eyed Joe, Didn't play nothing but Cotton eyed Joe

Whenever there's dance All the women want to go,

They'll all dance with the Cotton-Eyed Joe, They'll all dance with the Cotton-Eyed Joe

Daddy won't say but I think he knows

Whatever happened to the Cotton-Eyed Joe, Whatever happened to the Cotton-Eyed Joe

[CHORUS:]

Cotton-eyed Joe, Cotton-eyed Joe, where did you come from? Where did you go?

Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from Cotton-eyed Joe?

Comments

8 years ago

Der Gonartroz

Only one thing to say: WHOA!@!

8 years ago

Dave S.

Who's the fiddler?

9 years ago

Casandraelf

honestly, i decided to look this up since markiplier sorta-kinda sang it while playing fnaf 3 and it got me curious about the original.

9 years ago

Mark Stockman

One version of the lyrics I saw said "daddy worked a man" named Cotton-eyed Joe. The story behind the song (according to word-of mouth, not scholarship) is that the "Daddy" owned a slave named "Cotton-eyed Joe", so named because he was blind due to cataracts, they causing whitened or "cotton" eyes. According to the story, even though Cotton-eyed Joe couldn't work, they kept him around for his fiddle playing. Not every slave owner was rich, so keeping a slave that couldn't earn his keep was a burden. The line "I'd been married (a) long time ago" supposedly refers to the fact that the keeping of Joe was keeping the family from accumulating enough wealth to provide their daughter with a suitable dowry. And the line "Daddy won't say, but I think he knows, whatever happened to Cotton-eyed Joe" is rather chilling, as it suggests a premature end for good old fiddle-playing Joe. :-( Like most folk songs, its origin is unknown, and the lyrics have morphed and been added to over going on 200 years now, so nobody knows for sure.

9 years ago

Shaine MacDonald

We had no idea that the dance song from the nineties was just stolen from this one. 

9 years ago

wellsbranchdude

Today I feel Texan for some reason. It must be the alcohol and the pain....

9 years ago

XAPISpix

THE REASON to have a FIDDLE in the Band, as per Alabama,when travelin' in Texas.

9 years ago

RetSquid

The listed lyrics don't match this song. Why?

9 years ago

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9 years ago

Gail Fazzina

Bill Monroe is an American treasure. What a visionary :)

9 years ago

Daniel Gordon

Hot Damn I'm glad in southern. This gets the blood movin

9 years ago

Syd Barrett

Bluegrass is such an important style. Folk must always be preserved. 

10 years ago

Maria Darosa

Love it

10 years ago

Maria Darosa

Love it

10 years ago

Tyler Everts

love this version! bluegrass is the best sounding music! cant beat that fiddle or that mandolin sound!

10 years ago

brodie purcell

Love it

10 years ago

johnmalory26

The original song is performed by, Gid Tanner in 1929.

10 years ago

Charles Town

I love this song..)))))

10 years ago

Heisrisin3

This is precisely how it aught to sound! No techno crap for me.

10 years ago

Christopher Parelius

This song sounds really strange without the Techno and the crazy Sweeds

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