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When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in the cradle

In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana

Just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cotton fields back home

Now, when them cotton bolls get rotten

You can't pick very much cotton

In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana

Just about 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

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