Harry Belafonte — Cotton Fields

[Verse 1] When I was a little baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home When I was a little baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home [Bridge] Oh, when them cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them there, ol' cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana Just a mile from Texarkana In them there ol' cotton fields at home [Verse 2] Now it may sound very funny But you didn't make very much money In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Yes, it might sound very funny But you didn't make very much money In them there, ol' cotton fields at home [Bridge] Oh, when them cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them there, ol' cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana Just a mile from Texarkana In them there ol' cotton fields at home [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] I was over in Arkansas When the sheriff asked me "What did you come here for?" In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Yes, I was over in Arkansas When the sheriff asked me "What did you come here for?" In them there, ol' cotton fields at home [Bridge] Oh, when them cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them there, ol' cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana Just a mile from Texarkana In them there, ol' cotton fields at home [Verse 4] When I was a little baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home When I was a little baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home [Outro] Oh, when them cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them there, ol' cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana Just a mile from Texarkana In them there, ol' cotton fields at home In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Yeah