California Okie
Buck Owens
Album: California Okie (Single 45) 

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I'm a first-generation, genuine California Okie, 
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Born in Barstow, raised in Bakersfield. 
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My Ma and Pa were orphans of the Oklahoma dust bowl. 
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I was born in the back of a rusty Oldsmobile.

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My Daddy followed his dream West and when we laid his soul to rest
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I knew he found his promised land
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And now I am a working man and with the help of the good Lords hand
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I get to have what daddy never had 

        A                        E
I'm a first-generation, genuine California Okie, 
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Born in Barstow, raised in Bakersfield. 
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My Ma and Pa were orphans of the Oklahoma dust bowl. 
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I was born in the back of a rusty Oldsmobile.

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Well I like Jimmy Rodgers songs corn bread beans and honkey tonks
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I like the smell of new mowed field of hay
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This valley in my blood and bones the sand walking where I call home
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Where I belong is where I'm gonna stay

        A                        E
I'm a first-generation, genuine California Okie, 
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Born in Barstow, raised in Bakersfield. 
   A                              E
My Ma and Pa were orphans of the Oklahoma dust bowl. 
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I was born in the back of a rusty Oldsmobile.

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I'm born and bread cornbread feed California Okie