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