When I was a little bitty baby 
My mama would rock me in the cradle 
In them old cotton fields back home 
It was down in Louisiana 
Just a mile from Texarkana 
In them old cotton fields back home 

It may sound a little funny 
But you didn't make very much money 
In them old cotton fields back home 
It may sound a little funny 
But you didn't make very much money 
In them old cotton fields back home 

Oh when those cotton balls get rotten 
You can't pick you very much cotton 
In them old cotton fields back home 

It was down in Louisiana 
Just a mile from Texarkana 
In them old cotton fields back home 

I was over in Arkansas 
People ask me what [bad word] here for 
In them old cotton fields back home 
I was over in Arkansas 
People ask me what [bad word] here for 
In them old cotton fields back home