My driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '42 when I was just a child in Momma's arms, 我driftin的记忆又回到了1942的春天，当我还是一个孩子在妈妈的怀里，

My Daddy plowed the fields and prayed and did all he could do to save that broke-down Oklahoma farm, 我的爸爸耕农田和祈祷，做了所有他能做的保存，打破下来俄克拉何马州的农场，

   

Then one night I heard my Daddy sayin' to my Momma, that he finally saved enough for us to go, 后来有一天晚上，我听到我爸爸说我的妈妈，他终于存够我们去，

California was his dream, a paradise that he had seen, the pictures and the magazines had told him so 加利福尼亚州是他的梦想，他已经看到了天堂，图片和杂志曾告诉他这样

   

California cotton fields, where labor camps were filled with worried men and broken dreams, 加利福尼亚州的棉花田，在劳教所充满了担心男人和破碎的梦想，

California cotton fields, was as close to wealth as Daddy ever came 加利福尼亚州的棉花田，是接近财富爸爸取之不尽

   

Almost everything we owned was sold or left behind, from Daddy's tools to the fruit that Momma canned, 我们拥有几乎一切都被出售或留下来的，从爸爸的工具，那妈妈的罐头水果，

Some folks came to say farewell and see what all we had to sell, some just came to shake my Daddy's hand 有些人来告别的，看看我们都不得不卖掉，有的只是来动摇我的爸爸的手

   

The model T was loaded down and California bound and the dream of hope was just four days away, T型车装载下来，加州的约束和希望的梦想只有4天了，

But the only change that I remember seein' in my Daddy was when his brown hair turned to silver grey 但是，我记得看见的“Daddy ，我爸爸唯一的变化是，当他的棕色头发变成银灰色

   

California cotton fields, where labor camps were filled with worried men and broken dreams, 加利福尼亚州的棉花田，在劳教所充满了担心男人和破碎的梦想，

California cotton fields, was as close to wealth as Daddy ever came 加利福尼亚州的棉花田，是接近财富爸爸取之不尽