Lead Belly - Cotton Fields

First performance: 00/05/1995


Coverinfo

Bruce performed the song only once:
 
 
1995-05-00 Fogerty Residence, Beverly Hills, CA 
 
Bruce performs in John Fogerty's living room during Fogerty's 50th birthday party. Location and date are uncertain, but an extensive setlist is known from video circulated by participant John Stamos
 
link to John Stamos' fb page ( starts at 5:55 )
 
RollingStone Article
 
  
 

Songinfo

"Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)" is a song written by American blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who made the first recording of the song in 1940. Creedence Clearwater Revival included their cover of Cotton Fields as the third track on their 1969 album Willy and the Poor Boys. 
 
 
  

Other cover versions

Creedence Clearwater Revival included their cover of Cotton Fields as the third track on their 1969 album Willy and the Poor Boys. Their version hit #1 in Mexico in 1970.

Bruce on the artist

Lyrics

When I was a little baby, my mother rocked me in the cradle,
In them ole cotton fields back home
When I was a little baby, my mother rocked me in the cradle,
In them ole cotton fields back home
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, you can't pick very much cotton,
In them ole cotton fields back home
It was down in Louisiana, just a mile from Texarkana,
In them ole cotton fields back home
It may sound a little funny, but you didn't make very much money,
In them ole cotton fields back home
It may sound a little funny, but you didn't make very much money,
In them ole cotton fields back home
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, you can't pick very much cotton,
In them ole cotton fields back home
It was down in Louisiana, just a mile from Texarkana,
In them ole cotton fields back home
I was home in Arkansas, people ask me what you come here for,
In them ole cotton fields back home
I was home in Arkansas, people ask me what you come here for,
In them ole cotton fields back home
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, you can't pick very much cotton,
In them ole cotton fields back home
It was down in Louisiana, just a mile from Texarkana,
In them ole cotton fields back home
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten, you can't pick very much cotton,
In them ole cotton fields back home
It was down in Louisiana, just a mile from Texarkana,
In them ole cotton fields back home