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I was the youngest boy in a family of four 
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We lived in Oklahoma  the wind whistled thru our  door 
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We scratched out a living in the dirt and and the clay 
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I never will forget it untill my dying days 
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The dust storms they came at us the sky turned cold and  
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black 
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We packed up our belonging and never looked back 
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We rode out  west toward the sun just a heartbeat away 
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I never will forget it untill my dying days   
        A           D             E          F#m 
We were Bakersfield Bound and the California dream 
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Down the road lay the promised lands our fields would all  
     E 
turn green 
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We were Bakersfield bound like so many gone before   
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Just to cross our River Jordan and reach the other shore 
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When we first set eyes on The San Joaquin    
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Was like a friend we always knew  
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The gates swing open so far & wide even God could drive thru 
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We worked the crops from dawn to dust shared along the way 
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I never will forget it untill my dying days  
        A           D             E          F#m 
We were Bakersfield Bound and the California dream 
         D            A 
Down the road lay the promised lands our fields had all  
       E 
turned green 
        A           D             E         F#m 
We were Bakersfield bound like so many gone before   
        D               A          E               A 
Just to cross our River Jordan and reach the other shore 
D                 A         E               A 
Crossed our River Jordan to reach the other shore