Merle Haggard – California Cottonfields (Guitar)

[Intro]
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My drifting memory goes back to the spring of '43

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When I was just a child in momma's arms

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My daddy plowed the ground and prayed someday he could leave

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This run-down mortgaged Oklahoma farm

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And then one night I heard my daddy saying to my momma

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That he'd finally saved enough to go

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California was his dream of paradise for he had seen

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Pictures in magazines that told him so

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 California Cottonfields

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Where labor camps were filled with worried men with broken dreams

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 California Cottonfields

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As close to wealth as daddy ever came

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Almost everything we had was sold or left behind

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From my daddy's plow to the fruit that momma canned

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Some folks came to say farewell and see what all we had to sell

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Some just came to shake my daddy's hand

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That model A was loaded down and California bound

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And a change of luck was just 4 days away

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But the only change that I remember seeing for my daddy

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Was when his dark hair turned to silver gray

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 California Cottonfields

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Where labor camps were filled with worried men with broken dreams

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 California Cottonfields

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As close to wealth as daddy ever came