D
When I was a little bitty baby, 
G  D
My mama would rock me in the cradle, 
A
In them old cotton fields back home, 
D
When I was a little bitty baby, 
G  D
My mama would rock me in the cradle, 
A  D
In them old cotton fields back home. 
 
Chorus: 
G 
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, 
D
You can't pick very much cotton, 
D  A
In them old cotton fields back home. 
D
It was down in Louisiana, 
G  D
Just about a mile from Texarkana, 
A  D
In them old cotton fields back home. 
 
D 
Now it may sound a little bit funny, 
G  D
But you can’t make very much money, 
A
In them old cotton fields back home. 
D
Yes it might sound a little bit funny, 
G  D
But you can’t make very much money, 
A  D
In them old cotton fields back home. 
 
Chorus: 
G 
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, 
D
You can't pick very much cotton, 
D  A
In them old cotton fields back home. 
D  
It was down in Louisiana, 
G  D
Just about a mile from Texarkana, 
A  D
In them old cotton fields back home. 
 
D
I was over in Arkansas when the sheriff ask me:  
G  D
What did you come here for? 
A
In them old cotton fields back home. 
D
Yes it was over in Arkansas when the sheriff ask me: 
G  D
What did you come here for? 
A  D
In them old cotton fields back home. 
 
Chorus: 
G  
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, 
D
You can't pick very much cotton, 
D  A
In them old cotton fields back home. 
D 
It was down in Louisiana, 
G  D
Just about a mile from Texarkana, 
A  D
In them old cotton fields back home.

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