Californa Cottonfields Lyrics - Emmylou Harris

my drifiting memory goes back to the spring of 43 

when i was just a child in mama's arms 

my daddy plowed the ground and prayed someday we might leave this rundown mortgaged oklahoma farm 

and then one night i heard my daddy saying to my mama 

that he'd finall saved enough to go 

californa was his dream of paradise 

fore he had seen pictures in magazines 

that told him so 

californa cottonfields 

where labor camps are filled with worried men with broken dreams 

californa cottonfields 

as close to welath as daddy ever came 

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well almost everything we had was sold or left behind 

from my daddy's plow to the fruit that mama canned 

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

and some just came to shake my daddy's hand 

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well the Model A was loaded down and californa 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 gray 

(repeat chours 2x)