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

Well, when them cotton bowls get rotten
You can't pick a-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 just a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
When I was just a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home

Well, when them cotton bowls get rotten
You can't pick a-very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
Well, it was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home
In them old cotton fields back home