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 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