Cotton Fields

  
        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,  
  
  

             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,  
  
  
  

                     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,  
  
  
  
  
                     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,