Capo 2nd fret
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Intro:Em
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Em D
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Wade into the river, through the rippling shallow watter
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C B7
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Steal across the thirsty border, bracero
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Em D
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Come bring your hungry bodies to the golden fields of plenty
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C B7
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From a peso to a penny, bracero
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C D G Em
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Oh, Welcome to California
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Am D Em
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Where the friendly farmer will take care of you
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Come labor for your mother, your father and your brother
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For your sister and your lover, bracero
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Come pick the fruit of yellow, break the flower from the berry
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Purple grapes will fill your belly, bracero
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Oh, Welcome to California
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Where the friendly farmer will take care of you
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And the sun will bite your body, as the dust will draw you thristy
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While your muscles beg for mercy, bracero
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In the shade of your sombrero, drop your sweat upon the soil
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Like the fruit your youth can spoil, bracero
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Oh, Welcome to California
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Where the friendly farmer will take care of you
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When the weary night embraces, sleep in shacks that could be cages
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They will take it from your wages, bracero
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Come sing about tomorrow with a jingle of the dollar
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And forget your crooked collar, bracero
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Oh, Welcome to California
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Where the friendly farmer will take care of you
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And the local men are lazy, and they make too much of trouble
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Besides we'd have to pay the double, bracero
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But if you feel you're fallin', if you find the pace is killing
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There are others who are willing, bracero
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Oh, Welcome to California
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Where the friendly farmer will take care of you
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Bracero
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| Phil Ochs |
