The southeast Georgia red clay dust is groundin' to my blue jeans 东南部佐治亚红土粉尘groundin 我的蓝色牛仔裤

A heavy hundred pound cotton sack draggin' along behind 一重百磅棉麻袋draggin “以及背后

Wanting to leave this place so bad, I forget how I got here 想离开这个地方那么糟糕，我忘了我是怎么来的

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 干活的我回家的路上，一次一个排

   

It's a long old cotton road between here and Waco 这是这里和韦科长陈棉路

Then, three days a-thumbin' through that California line 然后，三天， thumbin “通过加州行

And two more days of pickin' to that house, just south of Fresno 而两天再找到房子，正南弗雷斯诺

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 干活的我回家的路上，一次一个排

   

Mississippi delta mud is caked in layers on my brogans 密西西比三角洲泥结块层中对我的brogans

Sunshine on snow white cotton, nearly makes me blind 阳光照在雪白的棉花，几乎让我失明

I can almost see 'em now, a home folk runnin' out to meet me 我几乎可以看见他们了，一个家民间飞奔出来迎接我

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 干活的我回家的路上，一次一个排

   

It's a long, old cotton road between here and Waco 这是这里和韦科长，老棉纺路

Then, three days a-thumbin' through that California line, Lord, Lord 然后，三天， thumbin “通过加州线，主啊，主啊

Two more days of pickin' to that house, just south of Fresno 两天再找到房子，正南弗雷斯诺

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 干活的我回家的路上，一次一个排

Workin' my way back home, one row at a time 干活的我回家的路上，一次一个排