Cotton Fields Chords

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Cotton Fields by Leadbelly is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, B and B7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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

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

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

      E 
It was down in Louisiana 
      A                   E 
Just a mile from Texarkana 
       B                            E 
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 
I was over in Arkansas 
People ask me what you come here for 
In them old cotton fields back home 

( B  B7 )

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