When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home Well when of them cotton bolls get rotten you can't pick very much cotton In them old cottonfields back home Yes it was down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana In them old cottonfields back home [ steel ] When I was a little bitty baby... Yes again in them old cottonfields back home Well in them old I said cottonfields back home