Chords:
{t: Cotton Fields - Pick a bale of cotton }
{key: G}
{artist:Creedence Clearwater Revival}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibWkp7OFB_A
One person to play Intro (for pitch) : [G]
(Soloist) [NC] When I was a little bitty baby my mamma done
[C] Rock me in the [G] cradle
In them old cotton fields back [D7] home
It was [G] down in Louisiana just about a [C] mile from Texar[G]kana
In them old [D7] cotton fields back [G] home
{c: }
[NC] Oh when them [C] cotton balls get rotten,
You can’t [G] pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back [D7] home
It was [G] down in Louisiana just about a [C] mile from Texar[G]kana
In them old [D7] cotton fields back [G] home
{c: }
[G] We’re gonna [G] jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down turn around [D7] pick a bale a [G] day
[G] Jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton
Gonna jump down turn around [D7] pick a bale a [G] day.
{c: }
[G] Oh, Lordy, pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy, [D7] pick a bale a [G] day
[G] Oh, Lordy, pick a bale of cotton
Oh, Lordy, [D7] pick a bale a [G] day.
{c: }
[G] Me and my wife gonna pick a bale of cotton
Me and my wife gonna [D7] pick a bale a [G] day
[G] Me and my wife gonna pick a bale of cotton
Me and my wife gonna [D7] pick a bale a [G] day.
{c: }
[G] Oh, Lordy pick a bale of cotton, Oh, Lordy [D7] pick a bale a [G] day
Oh, Lordy pick a bale of cotton, Oh, Lordy [D7] pick a bale a [G] day. (STOP)
(Soloist) [NC] When I was a little bitty baby my mamma done
[C] rock me in the [G] cradle
In them old cotton fields back [D7] home
It was [G] down in Louisiana just about a [C] mile from Texar[G]kana
In them old [D7] cotton fields back [G] home
{c: }
[NC] Oh when them [C] cotton balls get rotten, you can’t [G] pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back [D7] home
It was [G] down in Louisiana just about a [C] mile from Texar[G]kana
In them old [D7] cotton fields back [G] home
( Soloist) [NC] (Slowly)
In them old [D7] cotton fields back [G] home [G7] [C] [Cm]
(All play –quick strum) [Gmaj7]
