(verse 1) 
        D 
When I was a little baby,  
               G               D 
My Mama would rock me in the cradle, 
                                     A   
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home, 
        D 
When I was a little baby,  
               G               D 
My Mama would rock me in the cradle, 
                                     A 
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home,       

                     G 
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, 
           D 
You can't pick very much cotton, 
                                     A 
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home, 
         D 
It was down in Louisiana,  
        G            D 
Just a mile from Texarkana, 
                    A               D 
In them there ol' cotton fields at home, 
 
(verse 2) 
             D 
Now it may sound very funny, 
         G                      D 
But you didn't make very much money, 
                                     A 
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home, 
              D 
Yes it might sound very funny, 
         G                     D 
But you didn't make very much money, 
                      A              D  
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home, 
 
(chorus) 
                     G 
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, 
           D 
You can't pick very much cotton, 
                                     A 
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home, 
         D 
It was down in Louisiana,  
        G            D 
Just a mile from Texarkana, 
                    A               D 
In them there ol' cotton fields at home, 
 
(verse 3) 
I was over in Arkansas, 
When the sheriff asked me, 
What did you come here for, 
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home, 
Yes I was over in Arkansas, 
When the sheriff asked me, 
What did you come here for, 
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home, 
 
(chorus) 
                     G 
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, 
           D 
You can't pick very much cotton, 
                                     A 
In them there, ol' cotton fields at home, 
         D 
It was down in Louisiana,  
        G            D 
Just a mile from Texarkana, 
                    A               D 
In them there ol' cotton fields at home