California Cottonfields Lyrics

The song California Cottonfields is performed by Merle Haggard in the album named Down Every Road in the year 1996 .



My driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '43
When I was just a child in momma's arms
My daddy plowed the ground and prayed someday he could leave
This run-down mortgaged Oklahoma farm

And then one night I heard my daddy sayin' to my momma
That he'd finally saved enough to go
California was his dream, a paradise for 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
As close to wealth as daddy ever came

Almost everything we had was sold or left behind
From my daddy's plow to the fruit that momma canned
Some folks came to say farewell or see what all we had to sell
Some just came to shake my daddy's hand

That 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 seein' for my daddy
Was when his dark hair turned to silver gray

California cottonfields
Where labor camps were filled
With worried men with broken dreams
California cottonfields
As close to wealth as daddy ever came



Merle Haggard - Down Every Road

Apr 1996

  1. Skid Row
  2. Sing A Sad Song
  3. You Don't Even Try
  4. Sam Hill
  5. (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
  6. Just Between The Two Of Us
  7. If I Had Left It Up To You
  8. I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
  9. Swinging Doors
  10. The Bottle Let Me Down
  11. High On A Hilltop
  12. I'll Look Over You
  13. The Fugitive
  14. House Of Memories
  15. All Of Me Belongs To You
  16. Mary's Mine
  17. Someone Told My Story
  18. Go Home
  19. Whatever Happened To Me
  20. Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
  21. I Threw Away The Rose
  22. Branded Man
  23. You Don't Have Very Far To Go
  24. Somewhere Between
  25. Sing Me Back Home
  26. The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
  27. Seeing Eye Dog
  28. The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
  29. I Started Loving You Again
  30. Is This The Beginning Of The End?
  31. I'll Always Know
  32. Mama Tried
  33. In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
  34. Teach Me To Forget
  35. I'm Looking For My Mind
  36. The Day The Rains Came
  37. California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)
  38. I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
  39. I'm Bringin' Home Good News
  40. I Can't Hold Myself In Line
  41. It Meant Goodbye To Me When You Said Hello To Him
  42. Hungry Eyes
  43. Waitin' For A Train
  44. Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make A Fool Out Of Me)
  45. California Cottonfields
  46. White Line Fever
  47. Workin' Man Blues
  48. Okie From Muskogee
  49. I Can't Stop Loving You
  50. Huntsville
  51. Irma Jackson
  52. The Fightin' Side Of Me
  53. I'll Be A Hero (When I Strike)
  54. Right Or Wrong
  55. Trouble In Mind
  56. Stay A Little Longer
  57. The Farmer's Daughter
  58. Tulare Dust
  59. Carolyn
  60. Someday We'll Look Back
  61. Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
  62. Grandma Harp
  63. It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
  64. I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me
  65. The Emptiest Arms In The World
  66. Everybody's Had The Blues
  67. Things Aren't Funny Anymore
  68. Honky Tonk Night Time Man
  69. Holding Things Together
  70. Here In Frisco
  71. Kentucky Gambler
  72. Always Wanting You
  73. Living With The Shades Pulled Down
  74. Running Kind
  75. It's All In The Movies
  76. The Way It Was In '51
  77. I Never Go Around Mirrors
  78. What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana
  79. If We're Not Back In Love By Monday
  80. Ramblin' Fever
  81. It's Been A Great Afternoon
  82. Misery And Gin
  83. Leonard
  84. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
  85. Rainbow Stew
  86. Big City
  87. Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)
  88. You Take Me For Granted
  89. Pancho And Lefty
  90. That's The Way Love Goes
  91. Someday When Things Are Good
  92. Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
  93. Kern River
  94. Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
  95. In My Next Life
  96. Silver Wings
  97. If We Make It Through December
  98. Red Bandana
  99. Footlights
  100. My Own Kind Of Hat
  101. Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
  102. Kern River
  103. Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
  104. In My Next Life

California Cottonfields