One Of These Days

One Of These Days - Nanci Griffith

We walk along the Hudson

When it snows here in Manhattan

Seems we've lived our lives so out of place

You touch my cheek and

I do wonder how this happened

Two young lovers could pack their dreams

And move from the Texas Plains

Oh I'm gonna take us back where we belong

Where you can see it in the stars

That the weather's coming on

One of these days

Now our daddies grew cotton

Spitting dust of a morning

We met on a school bus

Rolling thru the autumn fields our daddies raised

Beneath a hot August sky our mothers waved goodbye

My daddy tipped his hat with a tear in his eye

When we left for the city

Where the sun rarely shines

It was a 'hunnerd' an' two in the shade

Oh I'm gonna take us back where we belong

Where you can see it in the stars

That the weather's coming on

One of these days

Hey do you wanta take a cab uptown

Watch the skaters go

Around and around

We could talk about leavin' this town some other day

And I suppose we look like natives here

This middle-aged couple with silver hair

And on cold winter nights this love we share

Is still a 'hunnerd' and two in the shade

Oh I'm gonna take us back where we belong

Where you can see it in the stars

That the weather's comin' on

One of these days

Oh I'm gonna take us back where we belong

Where you can see it in the stars

That the weather's comin' on

One of these days

One of these days

One of these days