One of These Days

[Intro]
There she is

[Verse 1]
She worked in a laundry pressin' shirts and pants
Eight hours a day at that iron she'd stand
'Bout every thirty 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
And at night they'd meet at the cold spot
And drink some beer
And every mornin' when she'd clock in, she'd say

[Chorus]
"One of these days, I'm gettin' out of here
Yeah, 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
And things are gonna change one of these days"

[Verse 2]
One Friday she said, "That's it, I'm quittin'"
We all thought that she was just kiddin'
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 comin' down around him
I can't count the times I heard her say

[Chorus]
"One of these days, I'm gettin' out of here
Yeah, 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
And things are gonna change one of these days"

[Bridge]
That girl wasn't nobody's fool
Bet she's workin' somewhere cool
And I'm startin' to think

[Chorus]
That one of these days, I'm gettin' 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
And things are gonna change one of these days
Yeah, one of these days
Yeah, one of these days

[Outro]
Oh, come on, let's go