Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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LYRICS:
When I was a little bitty baby
My momma 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

Well now it may sound a little bit funny
But you don't make very much money
In them old cotton fields back home
Well I was out in Arkansas
People ask me what you come here for
And now I'm trying to find my way 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

When I was a little bitty baby
My momma 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

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Cotton Fields - written by Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly). Performed by Robert Haigh.