Lead Belly - Cotton Fields

When I was a little baby

My mother would rock me in the cradle

In them old, old cotton fields at home

When I was a little baby

My mother would rock me in the cradle

In them old, old cotton fields at home

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Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten

You couldn't pick very much cotton

In them old cotton fields at home

It was down in Louisiana

Just a mile from Texarkana

In them old, old cotton fields at home

It may sound a little funny

But, you didn't make very much money

In them old cotton fields at home

It may sound a little funny

But, you didn't make very much money

In them old, old cotton fields at home

[Chorus]

I was over in Arkansas

People ask me, "What you come here for?"

In them old cotton fields at home

I was over in Arkansas

People ask me, "What you come here for?"

In them old, old cotton fields at home

[Chorus] (2x)