- >Be 21
- >Girlfriend's 19
- >Been dating for months now
- >This guy named Joe comes out of fucking nowhere into my life
- >He's my new coworker at my company
- >Find out he has no money, no place of residence.
- >Moved here for the job and can no longer afford his hotel
- >Decide to open up to him
- >Keep him in my apartment for weeks
- >Bro is pretty cool
- >We play the vidya, drinks beers, watch football
- >This continues for months
- >Afterwards, find out girlfriend is pregnant
- >By all tradition, I have to marry her now.
- >One night, eating out at dinner with wife
- >Joe stayed late at the office for some overtime
- >I pop the question to my wife
- >She admits she was raped by Joe and the baby isn't mine
- >She isn't ready to make a commitment after being violated
- >Go home in a fucking rage.
- >Throw out all Joe's shit
- >Gonna fucking kill Joe when he gets home.
- >Joe gets home about 1 a.m.
- >As soon as he opens the door, I fucking punch him in his bastard face
- >Eye swells up like a boll of cotton
- >He swings at me
- >Dodge and sweep his leg
- >He falls down
- >In a giant fucking rage now
- >Go to my room, grab my handgun out of my drawer
- >Go back to confront Joe
- >Joe jumps in his car and fucking hightails it out of there
- >I haven't seen or heard from him since
- >On the phone a month later with my brother
- >He finally asks why I've been so depressed
- >I tell him that if it hadn't been for cotton-eye Joe
- >I'd been married a long time ago
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTBkBZty2CM
- >Where did you come from, where did you go--
- >Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?