When I was a little pretty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle 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 Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten You can't pick 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 pretty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle 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 Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten You can't pick 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 pretty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle 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