Beach Boys - Cottonfields Chords

COTTONFIELDS: BEACH BOYS (in: Ab) (H. Ledbetter) 4/4 – 132

To play along with the original recording, place a Capo on the 1st Fret,
or Transpose all the Chords one (semi) Tone up.

|./.    |: Repeat the previous measure of 4-counts.
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N.C.  |G                 |./.                |./.           |./.
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BITTY BABY, MY MOMMA DONE ROCK ME IN THE CRADLE,

       |./.    |./.               |D7    |./.
IN THEM O- LD   COTTON FIELDS BACK HOME.

      |G             |./.                  |C              |G
IT WAS BACK IN LOUISI-ANA, FOR JUST ABOUT A MILE FROM TEXAR-KANA,

       |./.    |Am7    D7         |G     |./.    |
IN THEM O- LD   COTTON FIELDS BACK HOME.
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G                         |./.                        |./.
LET ME TELL YOU NOW WELL I GOT ME IN A FIX, I CAUGHT A NAIL IN MY TIRE

     |./.           |./.                |./.             |D7     |./.
DOIN’ LICKETY SPLIT.     I HAD TO WALK A LONG LONG WAY TO TO-WN.

            |G                |./.               |
CAME ALONG A NICE OLD MAN WELL    HE HAD A HAT ON. 

C                           |G                    |./.
WAIT A MINUTE MISTER CAN YOU GET ME SOME DIRECTION.

               |Am7      D7     |G     |./.    |
I'M GONNA WANNA BE RIGHT OFF FOR HOME.
====================================================================CHORUS:

                  |C                        |./.               |G
DON’T CARE IF THEM COTTON BALLS ARE GETTING’ ROTTEN, WHEN I GOT YOU BABY

         |G              |./.    |./.               |Am7    |D7
WHO NEEDS COTTON, IN THEM O-LD    COTTON FIELDS BACK HO-ME. 

            |G                    |G7                 |C                  |
BROTHER ONLY ONE THING MORE THAT’S   GONNA WARM YA,  A SUMMER’S DAY OUT IN 

Am7       |G                  |Am7    D7         |G     |
CALIFORNIA,  IT’S GONNA BE THE COTTON FIELDS BACK HO-ME.
**************************************************************INSTRUMENTAL:

G     |Am7    |Am7  D7  |G
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++BRIDGE:

      |C             |./.              |G              |Em
IT WAS BACK IN LOUISI-ANA, JUST ABOUT A MILE FROM TEXAR-KANA.

              |G            |Em                      |G            |Em     |
A GIVE ME THEM COTTON FIELDS,  LET ME HEAR IT FOR THE COTTON FIELDS.

G                  |Em                |Am7    |D7
   YOU KNOW THERE’S JUST NO PLACE LIKE HO-ME.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++OUTRO:

         |G                             |G7
OH BOY IT SURE FEELS GOOD TO BREATHE THE AIR BACK HOME,

              |C                         |Am7
YOU SHOULD ‘VE SEEN THEIR FACES WHEN THEY SEE HOW I GROWN,

       |G     |Am7    D7         |C   G  |G  (: Fade Out)
IN THEM O- LD  COTTON FIELDS BACK HOME.


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