One Row At A Time Lyrics - Someday We'll Look Back - Merle Haggard

The southeast Georgia red clay dust is groundin' to my blue jeans 

A heavy hundred pound cotton sack draggin' along behind 

Wanting to leave this place so bad, I forget how I got here 

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 

It's a long old cotton road between here and Waco 

Then, three days a-thumbin' through that California line 

And two more days of pickin' to that house, just south of Fresno 

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 

Mississippi delta mud is caked in layers on my brogans 

Sunshine on snow white cotton, nearly makes me blind 

I can almost see 'em now, a home folk runnin' out to meet me 

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 

It's a long, old cotton road between here and Waco 

Then, three days a-thumbin' through that California line, Lord, Lord 

Two more days of pickin' to that house, just south of Fresno 

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time