Cotton Fields - Lyrics - Harry Belafonte

Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful Caribbean American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso is the first million selling album by a single artist. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O". He has recorded in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He has also starred in several films, most notably in Otto Preminger's hit musical Carmen Jones , 1957's Island in the Sun, and Robert Wise's Odds Against Tomorrow .

When I was a little baby, My Mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home When I was a little baby, My Mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Oh when them cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them there, ol' cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana, Just a mile from Texarkana In them there ol' cotton fields at home. Now it may sound very funny, But you didn't make very much money, In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Yes it might sound very funny, But you didn't make very much money, In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Oh when them cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them there, ol' cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana, Just a mile from Texarkana In them there ol' cotton fields at home. I was over in Arkansas, When the sheriff asked me "What did you come here for?" In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Yes I was over in Arkansas, When the sheriff asked me "What did you come here for?" In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Oh when them cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them there, ol' cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana, Just a mile from Texarkana In them there ol' cotton fields at home. When I was a little baby, My Mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home When I was a little baby, My Mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home When I was a little baby, My Mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home When I was a little baby, My Mama would rock me in the cradle In them there, ol' cotton fields at home Oh when them cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them there, ol' cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana, Just a mile from Texarkana In them there ol' cotton fields at home.