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Merle Haggard
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California Cottonfields
Lyricist:D Frazier, E Montgomery
My driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '43 When I was just a child in momma's arms My daddy plowed the ground and prayed someday he could leave This run-down mortgaged Oklahoma farm
And then one night I heard my daddy sayin' to my momma That he'd finally saved enough to go California was his dream, a paradise for he had seen Pictures in magazines that told him so
California cottonfields Where labor camps were filled With worried men with broken dreams California cottonfields As close to wealth as daddy ever came
Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Almost everything we had was sold or left behind From my daddy's plow to the fruit that momma canned Some folks came to say farewell or see what all we had to sell Some just came to shake my daddy's hand
That model a was loaded down and California bound And a change of luck was just four days away But the only change that I remember seein' for my daddy Was when his dark hair turned to silver gray
California cottonfields Where labor camps were filled With worried men with broken dreams California cottonfields As close to wealth as daddy ever came
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