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 pick very much cotton 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 --- Instrumental --- 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 pick very much cotton 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...