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.
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