When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cottonfields back home

When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cottonfields back home

Oh when them cotton bolls get rotten you can't pick very much o'cotton

In them old cottonfields back home

It was down in Louisiana not too many miles from Texarkana

In them old cottonfields back home

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When I was a little bitty baby...

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