When I was just a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cottonfields back home
When I was just a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle

In them old cottonfields back home
Well when them cotton bowls get rotten you can't pick a very much cotton
In them old cottonfields back home

It was down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cottonfields back home

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When I was just a little bitty baby...

In them old cottonfields back home