Lyric analysis

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married a long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

Chorus x3

He came to town like a midwinter storm
He rode through the fields, so handsome and strong
His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun
But all he had come for was having some fun

Chorus x2

He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to Hell, broken, sent
They all ran away so nobody would know
And left only men 'cause of Cotton-Eye Joe

Chorus x5

The song "Cotton Eyed Joe"  is a song that shows us the stereotype as the woman like a man seeking machine, and always trying to have the better man, the most handsome and strong and of the heartbreaker who leaves all woman in love but he doesn't fall in love with no one, a narcissist. The Chorus tells us that the man referred as Cotton-Eye Joe had been taking all the opportunities of the speaker to marry a woman and he doesn't know from where he came from or where he is in the moment.

 The first verse tells us about the arrival of the heartbreaker to town and how fast he passed and how he made girls fall in love with him only with his looks, his eyes and his smile, but the only thing that he wanted was to have fun. In the next verse the speaker says that Cotton-Eye Joe had went to many other places and wherever he went he just destroyed relationships and got all the woman and how he didn't care about leaving them alone and broken-hearted. And because of this event all the girls escaped town and left all woman alone.

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