Miss Ferguson

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
 'Cause 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 and she is spittin' thunder
 Waftin' California, reekin' Tennessee
 She is waftin' California and reekin' Tennessee
 Now 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, hey, hey, Miss Ferguson
 It's Cory from work callin' to say
 Hey, hey, hey, Miss Ferguson
 I was wonderin' what you were doing, a little later on today
 Just 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 now 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
 Now 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, hey, hey, Miss Ferguson
 It's Cory from work, callin' to say
 Hey, hey, hey, Miss Ferguson
 I was wonderin' what she was doing, a little later on today
 Just wonderin' what she was doing, a little later on today
 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
 Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la-la-la
 Hey, hey, hey, Miss Ferguson
 It's Cory from work, callin' to say
 Hey, hey, hey, Miss Ferguson
 I was wonderin' what she was doing, a little later on today
 Just wonderin' what she was doing, a little later on today
 I ain't even thinkin' about the rest of the day
 I was wonderin' what she was doing, a little later on today
 I said hey, hey, Miss Ferguson, it's me