Emmylou Harris – California Cottonfields (Guitar)
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As recorded by Emmylou Harris
(From the 1975 Album PIECES OF THE SKY - CD REISSUE BONUS TRACK)
[Intro]
F G
[Verse 1]
G D F C My drifiting memory goes back to the spring of 43 G D When I was just a child in mama's arms G D My daddy plowed the ground and prayed F C G D G Someday we might leave this rundown mortgaged Oklahoma farm
[Verse 2]
D And then one night I heard my daddy C G A D Saying to my mama that he'd finally saved enough to go G D F Californa was his dream of paradise C G D G Fore he had seen pictures in magazines that told him so
[Chorus]
C D C D Californa cottonfields where labor camps are filled C G With worried men with broken dreams C D C Californa cottonfields as close to wealth D F G As daddy ever came
[Banjo & Dobro Solos]
G D F C G D
G D F C G
[Verse 3]
D F C Well, almost everything we had was sold or left behind G D From my daddy's plow to the fruit that mama canned G D F And some folks came to say farewell and see what all C G D G We had to sell and some just came to shake my daddy's hand
[Verse 4]
D C G Well, the Model A was loaded down and Californa bound A D And a change of luck was just four days away G D F C But the only change that I remember seeing for my daddy G D G Was when his dark hair turned to silver gray.
[Out-Chorus]
C D C D Californa cottonfields where labor camps are filled C G With worried men with broken dreams C D C Californa cottonfields as close to wealth D G As daddy ever came C D C D Californa cottonfields where labor camps are filled C G With worried men with broken dreams C D C Californa cottonfields as close to wealth D F G As daddy ever came