Grabado por Lead Belly en 1940, "Cotton Fields" se introdujo en el canon de la música folk a través de su inclusión en el lanzamiento del álbum de 1954 Odetta & Larry, que comprendía actuaciones de Odetta en el club nocturno Tin Angel de San Francisco con acompañamiento instrumental y vocal de Lawrence Mohr: esta versión se titulaba "Old Cotton Fields at Home".
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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
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In them old cotton fields back home
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Now, when them cotton bolls get rotten
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You can't pick very much cotton
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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
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In them old cotton fields back home
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When I was a little bitty baby
D A
My mama would rock me in the cradle
E7
In them old cotton fields back home
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It was down in Louisiana
D A
Just about a mile from Texarkana
E7 A
In them old cotton fields back home
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Now, when them cotton bolls get rotten
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You can't pick very much cotton
E7
In them old cotton fields back home
A
It was down in Louisiana
D A
Just about a mile from Texarkana
E7 A
In them old cotton fields back home
A
When I was a little bitty baby
D A
My mama would rock me in the cradle
E7
In them old cotton fields back home
A
It was down in Louisiana
D A
Just about a mile from Texarkana
E7 A
In them old cotton fields back home
E7 A
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
