When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle
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
Well, when them cotton dolls get rotten
You can't dig 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 momma would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My momma would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
Well, when them cotton balls get rotten
You can't dig 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
And then, oh, cotton fields back home