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Ballad of the Boll Weevil
Story Stats
Rating:
4
Grade Level:
3
,
4
,
5
Page count:
9
Categories:
American
,
Folk Tale
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Author
Scott
Sanders
Appeared in
Hear the Wind Blow: American Folk Songs Retold
Story Summary
A comic lament about the uncomic devastation of the South by the cotton-boll weevil, a story begun in Texas around 1900.