G
When I was a little bitty baby
                 C             G
My mamma would a-rock me in my cradle
                               D7
In them old cotton fields back home
G
When I was a little bitty baby
                 C             G
My mamma would a-rock me in my cradle
                 D7                 G
In them old, old cotton fields back home

[Verse]
G
Well, it may not sound too funny
              C                G
But we didn't make a-very much money
                               D7
In them old cotton fields back home
         G
Well, it may not sound too funny
              C                G
But we didn't make a-very much money
                 D7                 G
In them old, old cotton fields back home

[Chorus]
N.C.          C
Oh, when them cotton bolls get a-rotten
             G
You couldn't pick a-very much cotton
                               D7
In them old cotton fields back home
      G
I was down in Louisiana
               C                G
'Round about a mile from a-Texarkana
                 D7                 G
In them old, old cotton fields back home

[Verse]
G
I was down in Arkansas
              C                      G
People said, "What did you come here for?"
                                      D7
From them old, old cotton fields back home
      G
I was down in Arkansas
              C                      G
People said, "What did you come here for?"
                   D7                 G
From them old, old cotton fields back home

[Chorus]
N.C.          C
Oh, when them cotton bolls get a-rotten
             G
You couldn't pick a-very much cotton
                               D7
In them old cotton fields back home
      G
I was down in Louisiana
               C                G
'Round about a mile from a-Texarkana
                 D7                 G
In them old, old cotton fields back home

[Outro]
                 D7                 G
In them old, old cotton fields back home
                 D7                 G
In them old, old cotton fields back home