Cotton Fields chords by Louis Jordan

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Verse 1
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When I was a little bitty baby,
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my mama brought me in the rain
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In that old cotton field back home,
way back home
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She said, you're like your pappy,
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gonna wake up slap happy
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In that old cotton tail back home
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Well, the cotton done turned rotten,
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and I hate rotten cotton
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In that old cottontail back home,
way back home
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It was down in Louisiana,
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just five miles from Texarkana
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In that old cottontail, oh one more time
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It was down in Alabama
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that I saw a dear old mammy
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In that old cottontail back home,
way back home
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She said, you got a whammy,
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you gonna wake up lookin' like Sammy
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In that old cottontail back home
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Yeah, the cotton turned rotten
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And I  hate rotten cotton
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In that old cottontail back home
Way back home
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It was down in Louisiana
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Just five miles from Texarkana
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In that old cottontail back home
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Get hot, boys!

Interlude 1

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Verse 2
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I  tell you, boy, that ain't it, man,
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that ain't it, just playin' on me.
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Oh my gosh!
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down in Arkansas
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folks said what you want to come here for
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in that old cotton field back home
way back home
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it was down in Arkansas
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folks said what you want to come here for
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in that old cotton field back home
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hey the cotton done turned rotten
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and i hate rotten cotton
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in that old cotton field back home
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way back home
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it was down in louisiana
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yet five miles from texas county
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in that old cotton field back home
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in that old cotton field back home
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in that old hey daddy look like
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you don't like this tune?
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He don't know
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nothing about no cotton.
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Only what he's wearing.
If you got any cotton on,
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how about your underwear?
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Is that cotton?
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That's the only cotton he knows.
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Man, this is a  good tune, man.
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It's a good tune.
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We rehearsed this tune two weeks.
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It's a good tune, man.
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Look, look, when we play this tune,
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I could just close my eyes
and see a rabbit going
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down the cotton patch
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And  I see a guy takes out
his double -barrel shotgun,
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and it takes day to day
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Hey you and we have
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rabbit and rice and gravy
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You don't know nothing
about no gravy
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gravy gravy is where it's at it
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you never had no gravy
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Porkchops and turnip salad.
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You don't know nothing about that,
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man.
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This is a city, fella.
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It's a city.
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Look, I can just see my mama fixing
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Sunday dinner, see?
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She fix a great big possum, see?
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And stuff candy yams
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down in his mouth.
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That's some good eatin', Dad.
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That's good eatin'. Delightful.
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In that old cotton fields  back home.
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In that old cotton fields back home.
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In that old cotton fields back home.
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Let's go home, Max.
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In that old cotton fields, cotton fields,
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cotton fields
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You missed it, Daddy,
you missed it, you missed it.