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When I was a little bitty baby
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My mama would rock me in the cradle
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In them old cotton fields back home
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It was down in Louisiana
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Just about a mile from Texarkana
            B7                 E
In them old cotton fields back home


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Now, when them cotton bolls get rotten
          E
You can't pick very much cotton
                               B7
In them old cotton fields back home
       E
It was down in Louisiana
             A              E
Just about a mile from Texarkana
            B7                 E
In them old cotton fields back home


E
When I was a little bitty baby
              A              E
My mama would rock me in the cradle
                               B7
In them old cotton fields back home
       E
It was down in Louisiana
             A              E
Just about a mile from Texarkana
            B7                 E
In them old cotton fields back home


               A
Now, when them cotton bolls get rotten
          E
You can't pick very much cotton
                               B7
In them old cotton fields back home
       E
It was down in Louisiana
             A              E
Just about a mile from Texarkana
            B7                 E
In them old cotton fields back home


E
When I was a little bitty baby
              A              E
My mama would rock me in the cradle
                               B7
In them old cotton fields back home
       E
It was down in Louisiana
             A              E
Just about a mile from Texarkana
            B7                 E
In them old cotton fields back home


            B7                 E
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

I was home in Arkansas
People ask me what you come here for
In the old cotton fields back home
I was home in Arkansas
People ask me what you come here for
In the old cotton fields back home