Nanci Griffith - One Of These Days lyrics

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
That 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 comin' on
One of these days

Now, our daddies grew cotton
Spittin' dust of a mornin'
We met on a school bus rollin' 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 comin' on
One of these days

Hey, do you wanta take a cab uptown
Watch the skaters go 'round and 'round?
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