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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

 Now, 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

 I was home in Arkansas

 People ask me what you come here for

 In the old cotton fields back home

 I was home in Arkansas

 People ask me what you come here for

 In the old cotton fields back home