Merle Haggard - Theyre Tearin The Labor Camps Down

they’re tearin’ the labor camps down

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i came back to california cause my home was here
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to look up my old sweetheart just for fun
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mom and dad had both passed on in two short years
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while my patriotic chores bein done

i saw changes all around me and some were good
but i hardly recognized my side of town
they tore down the swingin’ casing from the cottowood
and that tree was all that marked familar ground .

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oh , they’re tearin’ the labor camps down
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and i feel a little sentimental shame
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where’s a working man gonna live at in this town
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oh , they’re tearin’ the labor camps down .

the hilltop family market had been moved somewhere
and the name was changed to fit the newer homes
the things that i remember were no longer there
and the cabin that my Daddy built was gone .

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by : jose duarte
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