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Miss Ferris
John Hartford
Me Oh My How Time Does Fly-album
Lyrics from Mudcat
Banjo Tuned E , Key D, No Capo

Verse 1
   D        G                    
Now I had a teacher when I went to school,
  G                         D                 A
She loved the river, and she taught about it too.
   G                     D                G
I'se a pretty bad boy, but she called my bluff,
    D                    G                   D
With her great big collection of steamboat stuff. Oh, yeah!

Verse 2
    G                       D                     G
She had log-books and bells and the things like that,
                      D                           G
And she knew the old captains and where they were at.
     D                        G            D
She rode the Alabama and the Gordon C. Green,
         G                      A            D
As the Cape Giraudoux, she was later renamed, Uh-huh.

B Section
    G                             D
But her very favorite, as you all know,
          G                              G
Was the Golden Eagle, Captain Buck's old boat.
                                            G
This old stern wheeler sank and went to heaven,
      D                  G                       D
When I was in the fourth grade, in nineteen forty-seven, Uh-huh!

Verse 3
Well, now, fast people in St. Louis society
A-takin� a trip on the Mississippi
Sleepin� in their bunks after an after-dinner drink
They didn�t think the boat would sink. Oh, no!

Verse 4
Well, I know Captain Buck was a very sad man
When that old wooden hull went into the sand
And Miss Ferris was sad for sure
But immediately, her mind went to work. Oh, yeah!

B Section:
Well, she did some politicking that was tricky and hard
And she got the pilot house for the schoolhouse yard
And so, instead of studying, I became a dreamer
Dreaming �bout boats and the Mississippi River. Uh-huh.

(The remainder of the song is on the CD, but not on the video.)

Verse 5
I had to work real hard to get my school work done
Cause you could notfool Miis Ferris none;
And, if I went to sleep or I were not supposed to talk
Oh, she was a dead shot with a little piece of chalk. Uh-huh!

Last B Section:
 D             G                D
Oh me, oh my, how the time does fly.
                                     G
Time and the river keep a-rollin� on by.
                                          
Now, I am  not a student and sh is not a teacher
      D                G                  D       A  D
But, we both still love the Mississippi River. Uh, huh.

Verse 6
Well, I went to see her this Christmas last.
We took a little trip back through the past.

On the easy rocker we looked at pictures
And we dreamed our dreams of the Mississippi River. Uh-huh!

(Repeat last B section)

Written by John Hartford/John Hartford Music, BMI 

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