| When I was a little bitty baby | 
| My mama would rock me in the cradle | 
| In them old cotton fields back home. | 
| When I was a little bitty baby | 
| My mama would rock me in the cradle | 
| In them old cotton fields back home. | 
| Oh, when them cotton balls get rotten | 
| You can’t pick very much cotton | 
| In them old cotton fields back home. | 
| It was down in Louisisana | 
| Just about a mile from Texarkana, | 
| And 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 them cotton balls get rotten | 
| You can’t pick very much cotton | 
| In them old cotton fields back home. | 
| It was down in Louisisana | 
| Just about a mile from Texarkana, | 
| And them old cotton fields back home. | 
| When I was a little bitty baby | 
| My mama would rock me in the cradle | 
| In them old cotton fields back home. | 
| When I was a little bitty baby | 
| My mama would rock me in the cradle | 
| In them old cotton fields back home, | 
| In them old cotton fields back home. |