artist: huddie "leadbelly" ledbetter
song: cotton fields
album: where did you sleep last night (legacy vol.1)
transcribed by: ed bonacore

chords:
    E (022100@1)A (x02220@1)BE|--0--0--X (x2444x@1)B|--0--2--4
G|--1--2--4
D|--2--2--4
A|--2--0--2
E|--0--X--X


When I was (E) a little bitty baby 
My mama would rock (A) me in the (E) cradle 
In them old cotton fields back (B) home 
It was (E) down in Louisiana 
Just a mile (A) from Texarkana (E) 
In them old (B) cotton fields back home (E) 

It may sound (E) a little funny 
But you didn't (A) make very much money (E) 
In them old cotton fields back home (B) 
(E) It may sound a little funny 
But you didn't (A) make very much money (E)
In them old cotton (B) fields back home (E) 

(CHORUS)
Oh when those (A) cotton balls get rotten 
You can't (E) pick you very much cotton 
In them old cotton fields back home (B)

It was (E) down in Louisiana 
Just a (A) mile from Texarkana (E) 
In them (B) old cotton fields back home (E) 

I was over in Arkansas 
People ask me what you come here for 
In them old cotton fields back home 
I was over in Arkansas 
People ask me what you come here for 
In them old cotton fields back home 

*sometimes i play (B7) instead of the (B)