《California Cottonfields》歌词

[00:00:00] California Cottonfields - Merle Haggard (梅尔·哈格德)

[00:00:15] My driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '43

[00:00:21] When I was just a child in momma's arms

[00:00:26] My daddy plowed the ground

[00:00:28] And prayed someday he could leave

[00:00:31] This run-down mortgaged Oklahoma farm

[00:00:36] And then one night

[00:00:38] I heard my daddy sayin' to my momma

[00:00:42] That he'd finally saved enough to go

[00:00:47] California was his dream

[00:00:49] A paradise for he had seen

[00:00:52] Pictures in magazines that told him so

[00:00:58] California cottonfields

[00:01:02] Where labor camps were filled

[00:01:04] With worried men with broken dreams

[00:01:08] California cottonfields

[00:01:13] As close to wealth as daddy ever came

[00:01:34] Almost everything we had was sold or left behind

[00:01:39] From my daddy's plow to the fruit that momma canned

[00:01:44] Some folks came to say farewell

[00:01:47] Or see what all we had to sell

[00:01:50] Some just came to shake my daddy's hand

[00:01:55] That model a was loaded down and California bound

[00:02:00] And a change of luck was just four days away

[00:02:05] But the only change

[00:02:06] That I remember seein' for my daddy

[00:02:10] Was when his dark hair turned to silver gray

[00:02:16] California cottonfields

[00:02:21] Where labor camps were filled

[00:02:23] With worried men with broken dreams

[00:02:27] California cottonfields

[00:02:31] As close to wealth as daddy ever came