Cottonfields Back Home

Huddie Leadbelly

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1./: When I was a pretty little baby
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  my mamma would rock me in the craddle
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  in them old cottonfields back home.  : /
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R:And when the cotton-balls get rotten
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  you can pick very much cotton
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  in them old cottonfields back home
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  it was down in Louisiana
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  just about the mile from Texarcana
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  in them old cottonfields back home.  
2./: I was born in Arkansas
  when the people asked me: what you're coming for
  in them old cottonfields back home. :/
R:3. /: Well it might sound a little bit funny
  but you don't make very much money
  in them old cottonfields back home. :/
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