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“Cotton Fields” is a song written by blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly. It was also a #13 pop hit for The Highwaymen in 1961. The song mentions that the fields are “down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana”. This is geographically impossible, as Texarkana is about 30 miles north of the Louisiana border. While the meaning of the name is clear – a portmanteau of Texas and Arkansas, Louisiana represents the ANA in (TEX ARK ANA) – the actual origin is that when surveyors first surveyed the land they thought that the city would also be on the border of Louisiana. See Texarkana, History Section Read on...