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.

Oh, 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.

Oh, 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.

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.

In them old cotton fields back home.

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Let me tell you now, well got me in a fix
I caught a nail in my tire doing lickety splits
I had to walk a long, long way to town
Came upon a nice old man, well he had a hat on
Wait a minute, mister, can you give me some directions?
I gonna want to be right off for home

Don't care if them cotton balls get rotten
When I got you baby, who needs cotton?
In them old cotton fields back home
Brother only one thing more that's gonna warm you
A summer's day out in California
It's gonna be those cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
Give me them cotton fields
(It was down in Louisiana)
Let me hear it for the cotton fields
(Just about a mile from Texarkana)
You know that there's just no place like home

Well boy, it sure feels good to breathe the air back home
You shoulda seen their faces when they seen how I'd grown
In them old cotton fields back home