When I was just a little bitty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home When I was just a little bitty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home Well, when them cotton bowls get rotten You can't pick a very much cotton In them old cottonfields back home It was down in Louisiana Just about a mile from Texarkana In them old cottonfields back home When I was just a little bitty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home When I was just a little bitty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home Well, when them cotton bowls get rotten You can't pick a very much cotton In them old cottonfields back home Well, it was down in Louisiana Just about a mile from Texarkana In them old cottonfields back home In them old cottonfields back home