{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1780312,"song":"California Cottonfields","artist":"Merle Haggard","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1780312-california-cottonfields-chords-by-merle-haggard/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1780312?type=chord","rating":4.80891,"votes":18,"content":"[tab][Intro]\r\n   [ch]F6sus2[/ch]\r\ne|-----------------|-----------------|\r\nB|-----------------|-----------------|\r\nG|-------0---------|-------0---------|\r\nD|-----0---0-------|-----0---0-------|\r\nA|---3---------3---|---3---------3---|\r\nE|-1-------------1-|-----------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n                  | [ch]G[/ch]     | [ch]G[/ch]     |\r\n| [ch]G[/ch]      | [ch]C[/ch]      | [ch]D7[/ch]    | [ch]D7[/ch]    |\r\n| [ch]C[/ch]      | [ch]D7[/ch]     | [ch]G[/ch]     | [ch]G[/ch]     |\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D7[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy drifting memory goes back to the spring of '43[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nWhen I was just a child in momma's arms[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D7[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy daddy plowed the ground and prayed someday he could leave[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D7[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThis run-down mortgaged Oklahoma farm[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D7[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd then one night I heard my daddy saying to my momma[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A7[/ch]                                [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nThat he'd finally saved enough to go[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D7[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCalifornia was his dream of paradise for he had seen[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPictures in magazines that told him so[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D7[/ch]\r\n California Cottonfields[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D7[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere labor camps were filled with worried men with broken dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D7[/ch]\r\n California Cottonfields[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D7[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs close to wealth as daddy ever came[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n| [ch]F6sus2[/ch] | [ch]F6sus2[/ch] | [ch]G[/ch]     | [ch]G[/ch]     |\r\n| [ch]G[/ch]      | [ch]C[/ch]      | [ch]D7[/ch]    | [ch]D7[/ch]    |\r\n| [ch]C[/ch]      | [ch]D7[/ch]     | [ch]G[/ch]     | [ch]G[/ch]     |\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D7[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAlmost everything we had was sold or left behind[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                                    [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nFrom my daddy's plow to the fruit that momma canned[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSome folks came to say farewell and see what all we had to sell[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D7[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSome just came to shake my daddy's hand[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D7[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat model A was loaded down and California bound[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A7[/ch]                              [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd a change of luck was just 4 days away[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D7[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut the only change that I remember seeing for my daddy[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D7[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWas when his dark hair turned to silver gray[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D7[/ch]\r\n California Cottonfields[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D7[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere labor camps were filled with worried men with broken dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D7[/ch]\r\n California Cottonfields[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D7[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs close to wealth as daddy ever came[/tab]\r\n\r\n| [ch]F6sus2[/ch] | [ch]F6sus2[/ch] | [ch]G[/ch]     | [ch]G[/ch]","plain_text":"| G     | G     |\n| G      | C      | D7    | D7    |\n| C      | D7     | G     | G     |\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n| F6sus2 | F6sus2 | G     | G     |\n| G      | C      | D7    | D7    |\n| C      | D7     | G     | G     |\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n| F6sus2 | F6sus2 | G     | 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