California Cottonfields Lyrics - Tanya Tucker

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 he could leave 

This run down mortaged Oklahoma farm 

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

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 filled with worried men with broken dreams 

California cottonfields was as close to wealth as daddy ever came 

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Almost everything we had to sow we left behind 

From my daddy's plows to the fruit that mama canned 

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

Some just came to shake my daddy's hand 

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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 

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