Lyrics to
One Of These Days

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I won’t have to chop no wood
I can be bad or I can be good
I can be any way that I feel
One of these days

Might be a woman that’s dressed in black
Be a hobo by the railroad track
I’ll be gone like the wayward wind one of these days
One of these days it will soon be all over cut and dry
And I won’t have this urge to go all bottled up inside
One of these days I’ll look back and I’ll say I left in time
Cause somewhere for me I know there’s peace of mind

I might someday walk across this land
Carrying the Lord’s book in my hand
Goin’ cross the country singin’ loud as I can
One of these days

But I won’t have trouble on my back
cuttin’ like the devil with a choppin’ axe,
Got to shake it off my back, one of these days
One of these days it will soon be all over cut and dry
And I won’t have this urge to go all bottled up inside
One of these days I’ll look back and I’ll say I left in time
Cause somewhere for me I know there’s peace of mind
There’s gonna be peace of mind for me, one of these days

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Emmylou Harris has released many songs over the years besides One Of These Days. Emmylou Harris released songs from 1969 to 2003 spanning across albums like Gliding Bird, Elite Hotel, Pieces Of The Sky, Luxury Liner, Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town, Light Of The Stable, Blue Kentucky Girl, Roses In The Snow, Cimarron, Evangeline, Last Date, White Shoes, The Ballad Of Sally Rose, Thirteen, Angel Band, Trio, Bluebird, Duets, Brand New Dance, At The Ryman, Cowgirl's Prayer, Wrecking Ball, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, Trio II, Red Dirt Girl, and Stumble Into Grace. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Emmylou Harris.

About Lyrics and One Of These Days by Emmylou Harris

The lyrics to One Of These Days are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Emmylou Harris used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to One Of These Days have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Emmylou Harris and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to One Of These Days by Emmylou Harris. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to One Of These Days" means the words set to the music of One Of These Days, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Emmylou Harris. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to One Of These Days and the lyrics to One Of These Days are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Emmylou Harris who came here looking just for the lyrics to One Of These Days, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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