My driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '43, 我driftin的记忆又回到了43春季，

When I was just a child in momma's arms. 当我还是一个孩子在妈妈的怀里。

My daddy plowed the ground and promised someday we would leave 我的爸爸拨地，并承诺有一天我们会离开

This run-down mortgaged Oklahoma farm. 这个破败的抵押俄克拉何马州的农场。

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

That he'd finally saved enough to go. 他会终于攒足了去。

California was his dream, a paradise, for he had seen 加利福尼亚州是他的梦想，天堂，因为他看到了

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 weary men with broken dreams. 凡劳教所充满了疲惫的男性破碎的梦。

California Cottonfields, 加州Cottonfields ，

As close to wealth as daddy ever came. 接近财富爸爸取之不尽。

   

Nearly everything we had was sold or left behind, 几乎所有我们所出售或留下，

From my daddy's plow to the soup that momma canned. 从我爸爸的犁到妈妈的罐头汤。

Some folks came to say farewell or see what all we had to sell; 有些人来告别还是看看有什么我们不得不卖掉;

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

That model A was loaded down and California bound; 该模型中的加载下来，加州的约束;

A change of luck was just 4 days away. 幸运的一个变化是短短4天的路程。

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

Was when his dark hair turned to silver grey. 当时正值他的黑发变成银灰色。

   

California Cottonfields, 加州Cottonfields ，

Where labor camps were filled with weary men with broken dreams. 凡劳教所充满了疲惫的男性破碎的梦。

California Cottonfields, 加州Cottonfields ，

As close to wealth as daddy ever came. 接近财富爸爸取之不尽。