Subject: Re: chords: Blue Eyes Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:21:19 +0100 From: "Patrik Lundström" To: Hans Settler Hans, I take it as a challenge to add the few Gram Parsons songs that are missing on your page. The ones that I can figure out that is. Maybe I can come up with one or two more in the future. Here's a great song from the "Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels Live 1973" album. The most popular version is perhaps by Merle Haggard but I think Gram & Emmy sing it equally well. Patrik Lundström --------------------------------------------------------------------- California Cottonfields (Dallas Frazier, Earl Montgomery) Capo up 3 frets if you to play it in Bb, the key Gram plays it in My (G)drifting memory (D)goes back to the (F)spring of '4-(C)-3 When (G)I was just a child in mama's (D)arms My (G)daddy plowed the ((D)ground and prayed that (F)some day we could (C)leave This (G)rundown mortgaged (D)Oklahoma (G)farm And (D)then one night I heard my daddy (C)saying to my (G)mom (A)That he finally saved enough to (D)go (G)California (D)was his dream a (F)paradise for (C)he had seen (G)Lots of pretty girls in (D)magazines that (G)told him so Cali-(C)-fornia (D)cotton fields where (C)labor camps were (D)filled with varied (C)men with broken (G)dreams Cali-(C)-fornia (D)cotton fields, As (G)close to wealth as (D)daddy ever (G)came Almost everything we had was sold or left behind >From my daddy's plow to the fruit that mama canned Some folks came to say farewell and see the things we had to sell Some just came to shake my daddy's hand Well the model A was loaded down and California bound And the change of luck was just four days away But the only change I that I remember seeing for my daddy Was when his dark hair tuned to silver gray California cotton fields...