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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]

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