ARTIST: Huddie Ledbetter
TITLE: Cotton Fields
Lyrics and Chords
[Ledbetter was better known as Leadbelly. This transcription comes from the Creedence Clearwater Revival recording]
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
It was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home
/ E - / A E / - - B7 - / E - / A E / - - B7 E /
{Refrain}
Now, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was down...
/ A - / E - / - - B7 - / ...
{Repeat entire}
[Other verses from Leadbelly's version]
It may sound a little funny
But you didn't make very much money
In them old cotton fields back home
{Repeat}
I was home in Arkansas
People ask me what you come here for
In the old cotton fields back home
{Repeat}
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