Minstrel Mike's Music

Mike Moxcey ©2005

Old Cotton Fields Back Home

This song needs a double strum for each beat marked on the chord chart.

vs: I / IV I | / / V / | I / IV I | / V I / |

ch: IV / I / | / / V / | I / IV I | / V I / |

1. When I (|) was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in my cradle
in them (|) old cotton fields back home.
When I (|) was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in my cradle
in them (|) old cotton fields back home. (when them) (|)

ch: When them (|) cotton balls get rotten you can't pick very much cotton
    in them (|) old cotton fields back home.
    It was (|) down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana
    in them (|) old cotton fields back home. (it may) (|)

2. It may seem a little bit funny but you didn't make very much money
in them old cotton fields back home. (2x)

3. I was down in Arkansas people ask me what you come here for
in them old cotton fields back home. (2x)