Cotton Fields

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intro
|G     |     |E   C   |G/
 
verse 1
             |                    |          C              |G
When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
        |G    |                  |D7      |
In them old   cotton fields back home.
       |G            |                 |C             |G
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
        |G    |D7                |G   C   |G
In them old   cotton fields back home.
 
bridge
              |C               |
Now when them cotton bolls get rotten 
          |G             |
You can't pick very much cotton
        |G    |                  |D7     |
In them old   cotton fields back home.
       |G            |                 |C             |G
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
        |G    |D7                |G   C   |G/
In them old   cotton fields back home.
 
verse 2
             |                    |          C              |G
When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
        |G    |                  |D7      |
In them old   cotton fields back home.
       |G            |                 |C             |G
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
        |G    |D7                |G   C   |G
In them old   cotton fields back home. 
 
bridge
              |C               |       
Now when them cotton bolls get rotten 
          |G             |
You can't pick very much cotton
        |G    |                  |D7     |
In them old   cotton fields back home.
       |G            |                 |C             |G
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
        |G    |D7                |G   C   |G
In them old   cotton fields back home. 
 
guitar solo
|G     |     |C     |G     |     |      |D7    |
|G     |     |C     |G     |     |D7    |G  C  |G/
 
verse 3 and outro
             |                    |          C              |G
When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle
        |G    |                  |D7      |
In them old   cotton fields back home.
       |G            |                 |C             |G
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana,
        |G    |D7                |G   C   |G
In them old   cotton fields back home.
        |G    |D7                |G   C   |G/
In them old   cotton fields back home.