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 |: When I was a little baby,    My mother rocked me in the cradle,    In them old, cotton fields back home. :|
  Chorus: Oh when them cotton balls got rotten, You couldn't pick very much cotton, In them old, cotton fields back home.
  |: It was down in Lou'siana,    Just about a mile from Texarkana,    In them old, cotton fields back home. :| Chorus: 
  
|: I was home in Arkansas,    People ask me what you come her for,    In them old, cotton fields back home. :| Chorus:
  |: It may sound a little funny,    But you didn't make very much money,    In them old, cotton fields back home. :| Chorus:
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