California Cottonfields Lyrics - Long Time...seldom Scene - The Seldom Scene

My drifting memory goes back to the Spring of '43 

When I was just a child in Mama's arms 

My daddy ploughed the ground 

And prayed that someday he might leave 

This run down mortgaged Oklahoma farm 

Then one day I heard my Daddy saying to my Mamma 

That he had finally saved enough to go 

Well California was his dream of Paradise for he had seen 

Pictures in a magazine that told him so 

California cotton fields 

When labor camps were filled with worried men with broken dreams 

California cotton fields 

As close to wealth as Daddy ever came 

Almost everything we had was sold or left behind 

From my Daddy's plough to the fruit that Mamma canned 

Yes some folks came to say farewell 

And to see what all we had to sell 

Some just came shake my Daddy's hand 

Yeah the Model A was loaded down and California bound 

But the change it looked just four days away 

But the only change that I remember seeing in my Daddy 

Was when his dark hair turned to silver gray 

California cotton fields 

When labor camps were filled with worried men with broken dreams 

California cotton fields 

As close to wealth as Daddy ever came 

Yeah the Model A was loaded down and California bound 

But the change it looked just four days away 

But the only change that I remember seeing in my Daddy 

Was when his dark hair turned to silver gray 

California cotton fields 

When labor camps were filled with worried men with broken dreams 

California cotton fields 

As close to wealth as Daddy ever came 

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