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when i was a little bitty baby

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my mama used to rock me in the cradle

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in them old cotton fields back home
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it was down in louisiana

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just about a mile from texarkana

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in them old cotton fields back home

chorus

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well when those cotton balls get rotten
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you can’t pick very much cotton

B
in them old cotton fields back home
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it was down in louisiana

A E
just about a mile from texarkana

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in them old cotton fields back home