Chords for California Cottonfields - The Petersens (LIVE) on Branson Country USA

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[N] Welcome back to Branson Country USA.
We are always excited to have this family here with us.
We've known them for many years now and they are near and dear to our hearts
and I know they will be to yours as well.
Would you make them welcome, the Peterson family. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Well thank you guys, we're the Petersons and I'm the only boy
so we can make things easy if you guys just feel bad for me right off the start.
But anyways, I was going to mention we're going to do a Merle Haggard song.
Do we have any Merle Haggard fans out there?
_ _ Well Jamie Hagee mentioned that he's a big Merle Haggard fan
so we're going to send this out to him because it made me think of him.
It's about a man that really followed his dreams and failed
and so this is one _ of my favorites called California Cottonfield.
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_ _ [E] _ _ [F#] California Cottonfield, [E] where they were [F#] camps filled with [E] weary men with [B] broken dreams.
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California Cottonfield, [E] as close to [F#] wealth as daddy [B] ever _ came.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Almost [F#] everything we [E] had was sold or left behind
[B] from my daddy's plow to the food that mama [F#] came.
_ _ _ [B] Some folks [F#] came to say [A] farewell, see we wrote [E] all we had to [B] sell
some just came [F#] to shake my [B] daddy's hand.
_ _ [F#] Model A was loaded [E] down in [B] California bound
_ [C#m] change of luck was just four [F#] days away.
_ [B] But the only [F#] change that I [A] remember seeing [E] in my daddy
[B] was when his [F#] dark hair turned to [B] silver gray. _ _ _ _
[E] California [F#] _ _ Cottonfield, [E] where they were camps [F#] filled with weary [E] men with broken [B] dreams. _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ California Cottonfield, [E] as close to [F#] wealth as daddy [B] ever came. _
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Cottonfield, [E] where they were [F#] camps filled with [E] weary men with [B] broken dreams.
_ _ _ _ [E] California [F#] _
Cottonfield, _ [E] as close to wealth [F#] as daddy ever [B] came.
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