ฟังเพลงCalifornia Cottonfields (2005 Remaster)

California Cottonfields (2005 Remaster) - Merle Haggard/The Strangers

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

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