(Earl Montgomery)

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