Cotton Fields [G] The Beach Boys |[Chorus] |[G] When I was a little bitty baby |my mama done [C] rock me in the [G] cradle |In them old cotton fields back [D] home |[D] It was [G] back in Louisiana just about a [C] mile from-a Texar[G]kana |In them [Am7] old [Am] cotton [D] fields back [G] home [Verse 1] [G] Well let me tell you now well I got me in a fix I caught a nail in my tyre doing lickety split I had to walk a long long way to [D] town Came along a [G] nice old man well [G7] he had a hat on [C] Wait a minute mister can you [Am] give me some direction [G] I’m gonna want to [Am] be right [D] off for [G] home |[Chorus] |[G] When I was a little bitty baby my mama done rock me in the cradle |In them old cotton fields back [D] home |It was [G] back in Louisiana just about a [C] mile from-a Texar[Am]kana |In them [G] old [Am] cotton [D] fields back [G] home [G7] [Bridge] Don’t care if them [C] cotton balls get rotten When I got [G] you baby who needs cotton In them [G] o[Gmaj7]l[Em7]d cotton fields back [Am] home [D] Brother only [G] one thing more that’s [G7] gonna warm you A [C] summer’s day out in [Am] California [G] It’s gonna be them [Am] cotton [D] fields back [G] home [Instrumental] [G] [C] [G] [Em] [C] [C] [Am] [D] [G] [Verse 2] It was [C] back in Louisiana just about a [G] mile from-a Texar[Em]kana Give me them [G] cotton fields it was back in Lou[Em]isiana Let me hear it for the [G] cotton fields about a mile from-a [Em] Texarkana [G] You know that there’s [Em] just no place like [Am] home [D] Well boy it [G] sure feels good to breathe the [G7] air back home You shoulda [C] seen their faces when they [Am] seen how I’ve grown In them [G] old [Am] cotton [D] fields back [C] home [G]