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Tulare Dust Lyrics
Tulare dust in a farm boy's nose
Wondering where the freight train goes
Standin' in the field by the railroad track
Cursin' this strap on my cotton sack
I can see mom and dad with shoulders low
Both of 'em pickin' on a double row
They do it for a livin' because they must
That's life like it is in the Tulare dust
The California sun was something new
That when we arrived in '42
And I can still remember how my daddy cussed
The tumbleweeds here in the Tulare dust
The wally fever was a comin' fate
To the farmworkers here in the Golden State
And I miss Oklahoma but I'll stay
If I must and help make a livin' in the Tulare dust
The Tulare dust in a farm boy's nose
Wondering where the freight train goes
Standin' in the field by the railroad track
Cursin' this strap on my cotton sack
Wondering where the freight train goes
Standin' in the field by the railroad track
Cursin' this strap on my cotton sack
Both of 'em pickin' on a double row
They do it for a livin' because they must
That's life like it is in the Tulare dust
That when we arrived in '42
And I can still remember how my daddy cussed
The tumbleweeds here in the Tulare dust
To the farmworkers here in the Golden State
And I miss Oklahoma but I'll stay
If I must and help make a livin' in the Tulare dust
Wondering where the freight train goes
Standin' in the field by the railroad track
Cursin' this strap on my cotton sack
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"Merle has often driven home the point that life is hard, but he's never driven it with quite so few words as he does in 'Tulare Dust.'"