Cory Branan Miss Ferguson Lyrics

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