When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle

In them old cottonfields back home

When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle

In them old cottonfields back home

Well when of them cotton bolls get rotten you can't pick very much cotton

In them old cottonfields back home

Yes it was down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cottonfields back home

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When I was a little bitty baby...

Yes again in them old cottonfields back home

Well in them old I said cottonfields back home