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Cotton Fields

Words and Music by Huddie Leadbetter ("Lead Belly") - First recorded in 1940

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G	G7	C	G
-	-	D7	-
G	G7	C	G               D7
G	D7	G	-                G7
C	-	G	-
-	-	D7	-
G	-	C	G               D7
G	D7	G	-          (D7 repeat)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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When I was a little baby my mother rocked me in the cradle,
In them old, old Cotton Fields at home.

When I was a little baby my mother rocked me in the cradle,
In them old, old Cotton Fields at home.

Oh, when them cotton bolls got rotten you couldn't pick very much cotton,
In them old, old Cotton Fields at home.
It was down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana,
And them old, old Cotton Fields at home.
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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