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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 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
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We were Bakersfield Bound and the California dream
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Down the road lay the promised lands our fields would all 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 and 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
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Down the road lay the promised lands our fields had all turned green
        A           D             E         F#m
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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Crossed our River Jordan to reach the other shore