My driftin' mem'ry goes back to the spring of '43 我driftin “ memry又回到了43春季

When I was just a child in mama's arms 当我还是一个孩子在妈妈的怀抱

My daddy plowed the ground and prayed that some day he could leave 我的爸爸拨地，并祈祷有一天他可以离开

This run down mortaged Oklahoma farm 这跑下来mortaged俄克拉何马州的农场

   

Then one night I heard my daddy sayin' to my mama 后来有一天晚上，我听到我爸爸说给我的妈妈

He finally saved enough for us to go 他终于存够我们去

California was his dream a paradise wall he had seen 加利福尼亚州是他的梦想天堂墙上，他看到

Pictures in magazines that told him so 照片在杂志的告诉了他

   

California cottonfields 加州cottonfields

Where labor camps were filled with worried men with broken dreams 凡劳教所充满了担心男子破碎的梦

California cottonfields was as close to wealth as daddy ever came 因为爸爸曾经来到加州cottonfields是接近财富

   

Almost everything we had to sow we left behind 几乎所有的东西，我们必须播下我们留下

From my daddy's plows to the fruit that mama canned 从我爸爸的犁的水果罐头妈妈

Some folks came to say farewell and see what all we had to sell 有些人来告别的，看看我们都不得不卖掉

Some just came to shake my daddy's hand 有些刚刚来到动摇我的爸爸的手

   

The Model A was loaded down and California bound 模型中的加载下来，加州的约束

And a change of luck was just four days away 和运气的变化只有4天了

But the only change that I remember seeing for my daddy 不过，唯一的变化，我记得看到我的爸爸

Was when his dark hair had turned to silver gray 当他的黑发已变成银灰色

   

California cottonfields [?] 加州cottonfields [？]

California cottonfields [?] 加州cottonfields [？]