One Of These Days
There she is
She worked in a laundry pressin' shirts and pants
Eight hours a day at that iron she'd stand
'Bout every 30 minutes somebody said
"Man, it's hot in here"
She tied up her hair but she wouldn't cut it off
'Cause Robbie Lee likes it better when it's long
At night they'd meet at the cold spot and drink some beer
And every mornin' when she'd clock in, she'd say
"One of these days, I'm getting out of here
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
I don't mean that like it sounds but I'm not gonna be held down
Things are gonna change one of these days"
One Friday she said, "That's it, I'm quittin'"
We all thought that she was just kidding'
When we came back from lunch, she didn't
And that was it
Somebody said, "They'd seen her downtown"
Bags all packed steppin' on a Greyhound
Robbie Lee watchin' his world come down around him
I can't count the times I heard her say
"One of these days, I'm getting out of here
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
I don't mean that like it sounds
But I'm not gonna be held down
Things are gonna change one of these days"
That girl wasn't nobody's fool
I bet she's workin' somewhere cool
I'm startin' to think
One of these days, I'm getting out of here
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
I don't mean that like it sounds
But I'm not gonna be held down
Things are gonna change one of these days
Yeah, one of these days
Yeah, one of these days
C'mon let's go
She worked in a laundry pressin' shirts and pants
Eight hours a day at that iron she'd stand
'Bout every 30 minutes somebody said
"Man, it's hot in here"
She tied up her hair but she wouldn't cut it off
'Cause Robbie Lee likes it better when it's long
At night they'd meet at the cold spot and drink some beer
And every mornin' when she'd clock in, she'd say
"One of these days, I'm getting out of here
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
I don't mean that like it sounds but I'm not gonna be held down
Things are gonna change one of these days"
One Friday she said, "That's it, I'm quittin'"
We all thought that she was just kidding'
When we came back from lunch, she didn't
And that was it
Somebody said, "They'd seen her downtown"
Bags all packed steppin' on a Greyhound
Robbie Lee watchin' his world come down around him
I can't count the times I heard her say
"One of these days, I'm getting out of here
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
I don't mean that like it sounds
But I'm not gonna be held down
Things are gonna change one of these days"
That girl wasn't nobody's fool
I bet she's workin' somewhere cool
I'm startin' to think
One of these days, I'm getting out of here
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
I don't mean that like it sounds
But I'm not gonna be held down
Things are gonna change one of these days
Yeah, one of these days
Yeah, one of these days
C'mon let's go
Credits
Writer(s): Jeffrey David Stevens, Tim Nichols
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