California Cotton Fields-Greg Graffin

[ti:California Cotton Fields] [ar:Greg Graffin] [al:Cold As The Clay] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]California Cotton Fields - Greg Graffin [00:00.32]My driftin' memory goes back [00:02.28]To the spring of forty two [00:04.35]When I was just a child in [00:06.16]Momma's arms [00:07.08] [00:08.25]My daddy plowed the fields and [00:09.96]Prayed and did all he could [00:11.44]Do to save that broke down [00:13.66]Oklahoma farm [00:14.69] [00:16.11]Well one night I heard my [00:18.10]Daddy sayin' to my momma [00:20.25]That he finally saved enough for us to go [00:22.72] [00:24.06]California was his dream [00:25.91]A paradise that he had seen [00:27.92]The pictures and the magazines [00:29.69]Had told him so [00:31.25] [00:32.31]California cotton fields [00:35.21] [00:35.89]Where labor camps were filled [00:37.38]With worried men and broken dreams [00:39.80] [00:41.20]California cotton fields [00:44.42]Was as close to wealth as [00:45.93]Daddy ever came almost everything [00:49.91]We owned was sold or left behind [00:52.21]From daddy's tools to the fruit [00:54.04]That momma canned some folks came to say [00:57.79]Farewell and see what all we had to sell [01:00.15]Some just came to shake my [01:01.98]Daddy's hand the model t was loaded down [01:05.94]And California bound and the dream [01:08.59]Of hope was just four days away [01:10.91] [01:11.57]But the only change that I remember seeing [01:14.37]In my daddy was when his brown [01:16.92]Hair turned to silver grey [01:18.44] [01:19.86]California cotton fields [01:23.13] [01:23.90]Where labor camps were filled with worried [01:25.94]Men and broken dreams [01:27.73] [01:28.85]California cotton fields [01:32.43]Was as close to wealth as daddy ever came [01:36.17] [01:52.62]California cotton fields [01:56.18]Where labor camps were filled with worried [01:58.17]Men and broken dreams [02:00.50] [02:01.58]California cotton fields [02:04.77]Was as close to wealth as daddy ever came [02:08.58]Was as close to wealth as daddy ever came [02:11.90] [02:12.47]Was as close to wealth as daddy ever came