YET TO BE (Rhiannon Giddens/Marcus Hummon) 

YET TO BE
(Rhiannon Giddens/Marcus Hummon) 

She was born on a farm  
Working the clay  
She ran off when she was 16  
Down a long country road  
With nowhere to go  
She knew that she had to leave 

She hopped a one-way train  
With a ticket to ride  
In the third class back with the others  
She watched the farm fade away  
Just hoping and praying  
She’d have a better life than her mother’s  

It’s a long long way from where we’ve been  
The here and now is better than it was back then 
Today may break your heart  
But tomorrow holds the key  
We’ve come so far but the best is yet to be  

He was born on the farm  
But he didn’t wanna stay  
His daddy said he was a fool  
So he crept away in the dead of night  
And got a steamer out of Liverpool 

It’s far far away from the green fields at home 

To the wild Atlantic gray  
He was hoping for work and he prayed for the love   
Waiting half a world away  

It’s a long long way from where we’ve been  
The here and now is better than it was back then  
Today may break your heart  
But tomorrow holds the key  
We’ve come so far but the best is yet to be  

She was mopping the floor  
He was working the bar  
It was a divine collision of the human heart  
It was east of her and west of him  
They were wishing on the same bright star  
And then the baby was a brand new start  

In the hollow of his hand 
The road is rising up to meet them