A Fine, Fine Day

When my uncle Sonny blew back into town
Said, "I'll just go for a ride and have a look around"
He took off his fedora
Stuck his fingers in the crown
And he pulled out twenty dollars
And he laid that money down

And he called out to a taxicab
"Take me down to Central Park
And keep that meter runnin'
To the twenty dollar mark"
And he kept his eyes turned forward
And he sat up straight and tall
And no one even noticed him
No one cared at all

It's a fine, fine day for a reunion
It's a fine, fine day for comin' home
You did your sittin'
You did hard time
But you ain't gonna sit no more
They can't keep you there no more
It's a fine, fine day
And nothin's gonna take you
Nothin's gonna take you away
It's a fine, fine day
Oh yeah

The first time I saw Sonny I was just about this tall
And he always made my mama kind of crazy when he called
Him and my old man would stand and whisper in the hall
Then they'd disappear, and maybe not come home at all
Then one day Sonny stopped comin' around
Heard he got himself into
A little trouble out in town
Sometime after that he finally disappeared for good
Well, he pulled that old Houdini
Like we always knew he would

It's a fine, fine day for a reunion
It's a fine, fine day for comin' home
You did your sittin'
You did hard time
But you ain't gonna sit no more
They can't keep you there no more
It's a fine, fine day
Oh yeah
And nothin's gonna drag you
Nothin's gonna drag you away
Oh yeah
It's a fine, fine day
A fine day

(A fine, fine day)
(A fine day)
(A fine, fine day)
(A fine day)

I see you made it back all right
All right
I see you're none the worse for wear
It's been a long time comin'
Nothin's gonna drag you away from here

A fine, fine day
And nothin's gonna drag you
Nothin's gonna drag you away
Oh yeah
A fine, fine day
Oh yeah
A fine, fine day
(A fine, fine day)
And nothin's gonna drag you
Nothin's gonna drag you away, away
A fine, fine day
A fine day
A fine, fine day