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