When I was a little bitty baby
  My Momma done rocked me in the cradle
  In them old cottonfields back home
    It was back in Louisiana
  Just about a mile from Texarkana
  In them old cottonfields back home
    Let me tell you now well I got me in a mess
  I caught a nail in my tire doing lickety splits
  I had to walk a long long way to town
    Came along a nice old man
  Well he had a hammer
  Wait a minute mister, can you get me some direction
  I'm gonna wanna be right off for home
    Oh let them cotton balls get rotten
  I got you baby, who needs cotton
  In them old cottonfields back home
    Well it sure feels good to breathe the air back home
  You should have seen their faces when they seen how I'd grown
  In them old cotton fields back home