Where did cotten eyed joe come from????????????

Question

I just don't know, does anyone?

10 point to whoever gives the best answer.

10 points to whoever gives the best answer.

Answer 1

not sure. i don't know where he went either come to think of it! :o)

Answer 2

Going back into the late Nineteenth Century in the Deep South, it would appear that Joe was either a slave or bondservant/ hired man. The term 'cotton eyed' would be rendered today as 'bug eyed'. Or rather, having large and prominent whites (conjunctiva) to one's eyes. To those that research this kind of thing such a face would appear to the rest of humanity to be permanently startled or frightened. Something Vaudeville and early motion pictures would play into a stereotype and caricature.
How a recognized medical condition in a common laborer turned into the old foot stomping song that became a Euro-bop hit a hundred years later is one of those mysteries we'll never solve.

Answer 3

Some Drunk Red Neck cotton farmer, who was bored and thought he was dancing but he was actually. staggering so he named the dance the cotten eyed joe.

Answer 4

Sweden.

Actually it is a crappy techno band from Sweden called REDNEX off of an album called Sex & Violins

They hate country music, that is the only thing I like about them.

Answer 5

I think he came from old folk lore, it believe that he originated in a dance song, for like barn dances of sorts.

Answer 6

this guy joe, who had cotten eye, come on man!

Answer 7

where did ya come from cotton eyed joe? and whered ya go?

Answer 8

I know it is a southern song, that swedish band re-did it. Everytime we go dancing, they play it. Has its own dance and everything.

Answer 9

some southern song id think way back in the day

Answer 10

The minds of some....Norwegian? band.

They're from someplace like that.