Miss Ferguson lyrics

in a town where you can sum up every girl with just one sentence
give or take the subject or the verb
she shows up like the devil said penance
won`t nothin ever be clear no more

she got hired on down at the Last Chance Diner
she works all the same shifts as me
i`ve never been one for too much conversation
but now i choose my words so carefully

because the angle of her cheek is the math of persuasion
first time you saw the ocean she`s got tucked behind her knee
she is swallowing lightning she is spittin thunder
waftin` California reekin` Tennessee
she is waftin` California and reekin` Tennessee

i wanna tell her how i feel
but each time that i start
my tongue wraps like a tether ball
six times around my heart (and i say)

hey Miss Ferguson
it`s Cory from work callin to say
hey Miss Ferguson
i was wonderin` what you were doing
a little later on today
now i`m curious to see just where them 8 pounds will end up
i wanna be around to watch the Southern kick in
ain`t got no purple heart, no blue ribbon
blow out them candles and i`ll show you where i`ve been

now she comes around at midnight like a Sunday afternoon
with a purpose and a manner like a needle and a spoon
a bad thing waitin` `round to happen like a lake of gasoline
the way that woman does me is like nothing i`ve ever seen

don`t think i`ll ever wake up on the wrong side of her bed
she brings the sun, she brings the shine
these days every time i try and start to sing some sad song
i open up my mouth and the only word that i can find is just

sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la-la ...

hey there Miss Ferguson, it`s me
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