My mama would rock me in the cradle
 In them ol' cotton fields back home
 It was down in Louisiana
 Just about a mile from Texarkana
 In them ol' cotton fields back home

 When them cotton bolls get rotten
 You cant pick very much cotton
 In them ol' cotton fields back home
 It was down in Louisiana
 Just about a mile from Texarkana
 In them ol' cotton fields back home