  We calculate the electromagnetic and the axial form factors of the nucleon
within the framework of light cone sum rules (LCSR) to leading order in QCD and
including higher twist corrections. In particular we motivate a certain choice
for the interpolating nucleon field. We find that a simple model of the nucleon
distribution amplitudes which deviate from their asymptotic shape, but much
less compared to the QCD sum rule estimates, allows one to describe the data
remarkably well.
