Promise of Tomorrow

I told my old man if he hit me again today Me and little brother gonna make sure that he pays One night he got whiskey drunk so that's exactly what we did I've used these hands to settle chaos since I was just a kid I married my sweetheart in 1948 She grew up hard like me, they didn't have a lot to eat I know there's something better, I hear it in the wind We're leaving Oklahoma, we may not come back again Some bones ain't worth diggin up so let's leave em where they lay The promise of tomorrow comes with leaving here today Load up the old Ford truck, we'll wish this town good riddance, good luck The promise of tomorrow comes with leaving here today I could stay and work this patch of dirt But it ain't worth much these days It hasn't born a crop Since the top soil blew away There's work in Colorado In the oil fields out west Or maybe California Turning wrenches on them jets Some bones ain't worth diggin up so let's leave em where they lay The Promise of Tomorrow comes with leaving here today Load up the old Ford truck, we'll wish this town good riddance, good luck The promise of tomorrow comes with leaving here today Don't worry sugar We'll make it you and me A couple kids of pioneers Ain't scared of anything Load up the old Ford truck, we'll wish this town good riddance, good luck The promise of tomorrow comes with leaving here today --- Promise of Tomorrow - Turkeyfoot