When I was a little bitty baby   My mama would rock me in my cradle   In those old cotton fields back home   When I was a little bitty baby   My mama would rock me in my cradle   In those old cotton fields back home      Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten   You can't take very much rockin'   In them old cotton fields back home   It was back in Louisiana   Just about a mile from Texarkana   In them old cotton fields back home      --- Instrumental ---      When I was a little bitty baby   My mama would rock me in my cradle   In them old cotton fields back home   When I was a little bitty baby   My mama would rock me in my cradle   In those old cotton fields back home      Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten   You can't take very much rockin'   In them old cotton fields back home   It was back in Louisiana   Just about a mile from Texarkana   In those old cotton fields back home   In those old cotton fields back home...