California Cotton Fields

Tanya version

Intro
Three bangs

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 promised someday we would leave
This run-down mortgaged Oklahoma farm

Then one night I heard my daddy sayin' to my momma
That he finally saved enough for her to go
California was his dream, a paradise, for he had seen
Pictures, in magazines, that told him so

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California cotton fields
Where labor camps were filled with weary men with broken dreams
California cotton fields
Was close to wealth as daddy ever came

Bridge
Almost everything we had was sold or left behind
From daddy's plow to the soup 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
A change of luck was just four days away
But the only change that I remember seeing in my daddy
Was when his dark hair turned to silver gray

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California cotton fields
Where labor camps were filled with weary men with broken dreams
California cotton fields
Was close to wealth as daddy ever came

Quick outro
California cotton fields
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Where labor camps were filled with weary men with broken dreams