California Cottonfields Merle Haggard
CALIFORNIA COTTONFIELDS
KEY: A
INTRO: G G A D E D E A
VERSE:
[A]My drifting memory [E]goes back to the [G]spring of forty-[D]three
When [A]I was just a child in mamma's [E]arms
My [A]daddy plowed the [E]ground and prayed [G]someday we could [D]leave
This [A]run-down morgaged [E]Oklahoma [A]farm
[E]Then one night I hear my daddy [D]saying to my [A]mom
[B7]That he'd finally saved enought to [E]go
[A]California [E]was his dream a [G]paradise for [D]he had seen
[A]Pictures in [E]magazines that told him [A]so
CHORUS:
[A]Cali[D]fornia [E]cottonfields
Where [D]labor camps were [E]filled with weary [D]men with broken [A]dreams
Cali[D]fornia [E]cottonfields
As [D]close to wealth as [E]Daddy ever [A]came
BREAK: G G A D E D E A
VERSE:
Almost everything we had was sold or left behind
Some folks came to say farewell see what all we had to sell
Some just came shake my daddy's hand
Hey 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 turned to silver grey
CHORUS:
California cottonfields
Where labor camps were filled with weary men with broken dreams
California cottonfields
As close to wealth as Daddy ever came
OUTRO: G G A
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