“One of These Days,” by Scotty and the Skeptics. Here is a major hit for a female country singer or a band like the Drive by Truckers. My friend and business partner, the late, great, Keith Allen, plays guitar, with Marcus Webster on drums, Michael Rivinius on bass, and Phil Hersch engineering and playing banjo. All I do is sing, though I’ve updated the vocal tracks and tweaked the lyrics a couple times in the decades since that studio session.
Studio Version
Acoustic Version
“One of These Days”
Scotty and the Skeptics
© 1985 Skeptico Music–BMI • WilliamScottMorrison.com
He had no feelin in his feet
Rubbed his hands to make some heat
Semi’s kicked up whirlwinds
Along that dirty, salty road
Cold and tired he walked along
An empty heart, a hopeful song
Dreamin’ dreams of memories
That never lasted long.
One o’ these days, one o’ these days
Nothin’s quite as sure as change
Gonna find the right woman
Gonna settle down
And those winds won’t blow so cold
One o’ these days, one o’ these days
Nothin’s quite as sure as change
Gonna find the right woman
Gonna settle down
And those winds won’t blow so cold
When he was young and green
He put his faith in bein’ free
Figured that true happiness
Must lay in tryin’ every road
But that road’s hard on your soul
Without love, so much alone
And when you’re all alone even summer winds
Can chill you to the bone.
CHORUS
A warm body in the night
To caress until the light
Faceless names from lusty games
Then that road wind blowin’ snow
How many winter’s had it been
Since a lover he could call a friend
Just one night stands never holdin’ hands
Before that wind would start to blow.
CHORUS
REPEAT CHORUS