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Cotton Fields: The Highwaymen.
#13 in 1961.
(There are other verses to the original
 but this is the Highwaymen's version.)
CHORUS:
AWhen I was a little bitty baby,
my Mama would Drock me in the Acradle,
in them old cotton fields back Ehome.
When I Awas a little bitty baby,
my Mama would Drock me in the Acradle,
in them old Ecotton fields back Ahome.
#1.
AOh, when them Dcotton balls get rotten,
you can't Apick very much cotton,
in them old cotton fields back Ehome.
It was Adown in Louisiana,
just about a Dmile from TexarAkana,
and them old Ecotton fields back Ahome.
CHORUS:
AWhen I was a little bitty baby,
my Mama would Drock me in the Acradle,
in them old cotton fields back Ehome.
When I Awas a little bitty baby,
my Mama would Drock me in the Acradle,
in them old Ecotton fields back Ahome.
#2.
AOh, when them Dcotton balls get rotten,
you can't Apick very much cotton,
in them old cotton fields back Ehome.
It was Adown in Louisiana,
just about a Dmile from TexarAkana,
in them old Ecotton fields back Ahome.
OUTRO:
In them Eold cotton fields back Ahome.
In them Eold cotton fields back Ahome. D  A  E  A  
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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Cotton Fields

by Highwaymen

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Cotton Fields: The Highwaymen.

#13 in 1961.

(There are other verses to the original

but this is the Highwaymen's version.)

CHORUS:

When I was a little bitty baby,

D A

my Mama would rock me in the cradle,

in them old cotton fields back home.

When I was a little bitty baby,

D A

my Mama would rock me in the cradle,

E A

in them old cotton fields back home.

#1.

A D

Oh, when them cotton balls get rotten,

you can't pick very much cotton,

in them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana,

D A

just about a mile from Texarkana,

E A

and them old cotton fields back home.

CHORUS:

When I was a little bitty baby,

D A

my Mama would rock me in the cradle,

in them old cotton fields back home.

When I was a little bitty baby,

D A

my Mama would rock me in the cradle,

E A

in them old cotton fields back home.

#2.

A D

Oh, when them cotton balls get rotten,

you can't pick very much cotton,

in them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana,

D A

just about a mile from Texarkana,

E A

in them old cotton fields back home.

OUTRO:

E A

In them old cotton fields back home.

E A D A E A

In them old cotton fields back home.

A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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