http://www.biography.com/people/lead-belly-395
"Them ole cotton fields" according to the lyrics, are "way down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana." Hmm... Texarkana is 30 miles north of the Arkansas Louisiana border in the state of Arkansas.
Contrary to the thoughts and imaginations of some, this was not a slave song sung sadly after the slaves had come in from the cotton fields after a hard day, but a blues song written and recorded by Huddie Ledbetter in 1940.
Why would he say it was in Texarkana was in Louisiana? I'd say poetic license. By the way, Arkansas was not a slave state.
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