Alligator Girl - Langhorne Slim

Rode around Tennessee

Till they stole my car

Hoping for a chance to meet

Alligator girl

The electric guitar

I jumped in the river

Swam to the bar

Hoping to be delivered

Wake from clap of thunder

Pull the covers from my face

Lift my head off of the pillow

Check the darkness

Just in case, she waits

I thought I saw her at a bus stop praying

On a busted tv screen

Thought I heard her inside an old

church playing Mr. Pitiful, Goodnight Irene

Later on in my hotel

Staring up at stucco stars

Humming a sweet song

I wrote for thee

Alligator girl, the electric guitar

Wake from clap of thunder

Pull the covers from my face

Lift my head off of the pillow

Check the darkness

Just in case, she waits

She waits

She waits