When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in my cradle

In those old cotton fields back home

When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in my cradle

In those old cotton fields back home



Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten

You can't take very much rockin'

In them old cotton fields back home

It was back in Louisiana

Just about a mile from Texarkana

In them old cotton fields back home



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When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in my cradle

In them old cotton fields back home

When I was a little bitty baby

My mama would rock me in my cradle

In those old cotton fields back home



Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten

You can't take very much rockin'

In them old cotton fields back home

It was back in Louisiana

Just about a mile from Texarkana

In those old cotton fields back home

In those old cotton fields back home...