Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Verse:
G+G
When I was a little bitty baby
C majorC G+G
My mamma would a-rock me in my cradle
D7D7
In them old cotton fields back home
G+G
When I was a little bitty baby
C majorC G+G
My mamma would a-rock me in my cradle
D7D7 G+G
In them old, old cotton fields back home
Verse:
G+G
Well, it may not sound too funny
C majorC G+G
But we didn't make a-very much money
D7D7
In them old cotton fields back home
G+G
Well, it may not sound too funny
C majorC G+G
But we didn't make a-very much money
D7D7 G+G
In them old, old cotton fields back home
Chorus:
N.C. C majorC
Oh, when them cotton bolls get a-rotten
G+G
You couldn't pick a-very much cotton
D7D7
In them old cotton fields back home
G+G
I was down in Louisiana
C majorC G+G
'Round about a mile from a-Texarkana
D7D7 G+G
In them old, old cotton fields back home
Verse:
G+G
I was down in Arkansas
C majorC G+G
People said, "What did you come here for?"
D7D7
From them old, old cotton fields back home
G+G
I was down in Arkansas
C majorC G+G
People said, "What did you come here for?"
D7D7 G+G
From them old, old cotton fields back home
Chorus:
N.C. C majorC
Oh, when them cotton bolls get a-rotten
G+G
You couldn't pick a-very much cotton
D7D7
In them old cotton fields back home
G+G
I was down in Louisiana
C majorC G+G
'Round about a mile from a-Texarkana
D7D7 G+G
In them old, old cotton fields back home
Outro:
D7D7 G+G
In them old, old cotton fields back home
D7D7 G+G
In them old, old cotton fields back home