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