California Cottonfields Lyrics

California Cottonfields lyrics

My driftin' mem'ry goes back to the spring of '43



When I was just a child in mama's arms



My daddy plowed the ground and prayed that some day we could leave



This run down mortaged Oklahoma farm



Then one night I heard my daddy sayin' to my mama



That he finally saved enough for us to go



California was his dream a paradise wall he had seen



Pictures in magazines that told him so



California cottonfields



Where labor camps were full of worried men with broken dreams



California cottonfields was as close to wealth as daddy ever came



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Almost everything we had was sold or left behind



From daddy's plow and the fruit that mama canned



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



But some just came to shake my daddy's hand



The 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 seeing for my daddy



Was when his dark hair had turned to silver gray



California cottonfields...



California cottonfields...