After the Soil Fails

This time the dream is a Russian oil tanker
Fidel Castro and the Cuban sugar cane
But Richard Nixon is having the same old nightmare
Jack Ruby's black secret crawlin' up through the drain

So if William Tecumseh Sherman and the Union army
Come to finish off Savannah, just let it fall
'Cause even if they burn up all that Confederate money
You're gonna find that Rebel engine right where it stalled

(One of these days, one of these days)
One of these days the soil's gonna give out
And the Harvest moon will rise broken and pale
(One of these days, one of these days)
'But like a million worthless acres of Oklahoma farmland
You're gonna find me right here
After the soil fails

When the hurricanes finally take out New Orleans
And the scarlet fever has left Philadelphia bare
And malaria's hanging on the New World like a shadow
There's a ghost that we remember hangin' in the air
There's a ghost that we remember still hangin' there

(One of these days, one of these days)
Hey little girl, there ain't no use in crying
Keeping us up all night with that moaning wail
(One of these days, one of these days)
Like the dead horizon stretching out for a November mile
You're gonna find me right here
After the soil fails

(One of these days, one of these days)
One of these days the soil's gonna give out
And the Harvest moon will rise broken and pale
(One of these days, one of these days)
But like a million worthless acres of Oklahoma farmland
You're gonna find me right here
After the soil fails
You're gonna find me here
After he soil fails