When I was a little bitty babynMy mama would rock me in the cradlenIn them old cotton fields back homenIt was down in LouisiananJust a mile from TexarkananIn them old cotton fields back homennIt may sound a little funnynBut you didn't make very much moneynIn them old cotton fields back homenIt may sound a little funnynBut you didn't make very much moneynIn them old cotton fields back homennOh when those cotton balls get rottennYou can't pick you very much cottonnIn them old cotton fields back homennIt was down in LouisiananJust a mile from TexarkananIn them old cotton fields back homennI was over in ArkansasnPeople ask me what you come here fornIn them old cotton fields back homenI was over in ArkansasnPeople ask me what you come here fornIn them old cotton fields back home