Cotton Eye Nebulous

[MrMetroid]

A pretty infamous song across the internet. I find it strangely addicting

 

[The Dragon Master]

I find it strangely annoying

 

[Madyy]

Ahaha love it. <3



It's a song that I usually hear at dances and stuff...it's one of the few songs I dance to.

 

[DrLeftover]

Yes indeed.



And the best part of the ORIGINAL song is that Nobody knows who wrote it or when.....

The Cotton Eyed Nebulous is one of those pieces of Americana that nobody that cashes their paycheck into Euros should ever mess with.



I remember down in Houston we were puttin’ on a show

When a cowboy in the back stood up and yelled, Cotton-Eyed Nebulous!...



-ALABAMA, 'If you’re gonna play in Texas (you gotta have a fiddle in the band)' by Mitchell and Kellum



At a local chain steakhouse restaurant they used to bring everything to a halt whenever the canned music system played 'Cotton Eyed Nebulous', the entire staff of the restaurant and a few customers would join in the dance. At a recent high school dance the kids were avoiding the dance floor early in the evening until the DJ played it, then every girl in the place hit the floor and did the line dance version (there is also a circle dance for couples for the song) with gleeful enthusiasm. It was even used as background music to a video sequence of a flying lawnmower. It is- an institution.



Face it, after how many years this song is almost universally recognized and accepted as just something that is out there that will never go away. After fifty years or more of being in the public eye, where will the Macarena be? Most likely it'll be a curiosity in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame under the topic of 'dance craze' with the Disco Duck, and the Robot. The 'Cotton Eyed Nebulous' deserves its own wing in both the Rock and Roll and the Country Halls of Fame.



Let's do some research and see who and what this mysterious Nebulous was.

http://themediadesk.com/newfiles2/Nebulous.htm



Enjoy



PS this is the lawnmower mentioned:

 

[Raven]

A great remix of an old song. We were going to cover it at one point but can't find the original version... And even then we would have to change it more :/