When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle
In them old cottonfields back home
When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle
In them old cottonfields back home
Well when of them cotton bolls get rotten you can`t pick very much cotton
In them old cottonfields back home
Yes it was down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cottonfields back home
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When I was a little bitty baby...
Yes again in them old cottonfields back home
Well in them old I said cottonfields back home