When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in the cradle

In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana

Just a mile from Texarkana

In them old cotton fields back home



It may sound a little funny

But you didn't make very much money

In them old cotton fields back home

It may sound a little funny

But you didn't make very much money

In them old cotton fields back home



Oh when those cotton balls get rotten

You can't pick you very much cotton

In them old cotton fields back home



It was down in Louisiana

Just a mile from Texarkana

In them old cotton fields back home



I was over in Arkansas

People ask me what you come here for

In them old cotton fields back home

I was over in Arkansas

People ask me what you come here for

In them old cotton fields back home