| When i was a little bitty baby
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| My mama would rock me in the cradle
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| I’m them old cotton fields back home.
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| It was down in lousiana
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| Just about a mile from texarkana
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| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
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| You can’t pick very much cotton,
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| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| It was down in louisiana
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| Just about a mile from texarkana
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| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| When i was a little bitty baby
 | 
| My mama would rock me in the cradle
 | 
| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| It was down in lousiana
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| Just about a mile from texarkana
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| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| When them cotton bolls get rotten
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| You can’t pick very much cotton,
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| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| It was down in lousiana,
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| Just about a mile from texarkana
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| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| 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 lousiana
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| Just about a mile from texarkana
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| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| When them cotton bolls get rotten
 | 
| You can’t pick very much cotton
 | 
| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| It was down in lousiana
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| Just about a mile from texarkana
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| In them old cotton fields back home.
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| In them old cotton fields back home
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| In them old cotton fields back home |