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