When the time came to pick a theme song for their feature debut, the much-discussed Swiss Army Man , starring Daniel Radcliffe, filmmakers Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan had a novel idea. The bizarre, fiddle-fueled novelty was actually a reworking of an old American folk song, and thanks to its undeniable catchiness, it do-si-doed all the way to No. With respect to the song itself often titled "Cotton-Eyed Joe" , "Where did you come from? As Scarborough writes, she learned parts of the tune from "an old man in Louisiana," who picked it up from slaves on a plantation. Three years earlier, in , the noted black cultural historian and longtime Fisk University chemistry professor Thomas W. Talley shared a slightly different rendition in his book Negro Folk Rhymes.

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Based on the traditional American folk song " Cotton-Eyed Joe ", it combines the group's style with traditional American instruments such as banjos [5] and fiddles. The Rednex version of the song using "Eye" instead of "Eyed" , along with a dance-mix version, was very successful in Europe, where it remained at number one in Norway for 15 weeks, Switzerland for 13 weeks, Germany for 10 weeks, Sweden for 8 weeks, Austria for 7 weeks, and for 3 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. In Ireland , it peaked at number 2 in January In Australia it peaked at number 8 in April In the US , it peaked at number 25 in March
The film Urban Cowboy sparked a renewed interest in the dance. In a version of the song recorded by the Swedish band Rednex as " Cotton Eye Joe " became popular worldwide. The origins of this song are unclear, although it pre-dates the — American Civil War. Scarborough's account of the song came from her sister, Mrs. George Scarborough, who learned the song from "the Negroes on a plantation in Texas, and other parts from a man in Louisiana". The man in Louisiana knew the song from his earliest childhood and heard slaves singing it on plantations. Ef it hadn't ben fur Cotton-eyed Joe, I'd er been married long ergo. His eyes wuz crossed, an' his nose wuz flat, An' his teef wuz out, but wat uv dat? Fur he wuz tall, an' he wuz slim, An' so my gal she follered him. No gal so hansum could be foun', Not in all dis country roun', Wid her kinky head, an' her eyes so bright, Wid her lips so red an' her teef so white.
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