Upended
Uplifted
The boats on the river
Are a drifting
But where are you tonight
My sweet Peggy Sue?

Air smelled of
Sweet mint
When you're away babe
I can't get my mind to think
You're the one on the brink
But where are you tonight
My sweet Peggy Sue?

Good hands
Hold no idle molds
Whenever you were around
I never did what I was told
Caterpillar on the fence
Crow sliding through the crooked moon
Where are you tonight
My sweet and only Peggy Sue?

I asked myself the other day
Why was it you felt the need to go away?
Dusty books sit across my bookshelf
I slip on my trusty wolf's pelt
The fire is cracking, my money is stacking
But where are you tonight
My sweet Peggy Sue?

Out in the distance
A horse kicks its hind legs
Crystal combs her honey dew hair
As Henry flips through his magazine
I'm the leftist corner store
Sipping on a coffee, hurting to the core,
Wondering where she is tonight
My sweet Peggy Sue?

Corn fed whiskey raised
Stars in the sky wink n' cry
Every lover knows
They've got to share a slice of the pie
These gravel roads, these picket signs
Are pointing me in a direction
I never intended to go
But what have I got to show
Other than this empty glass and wrinkled bow?
Oh' where are you tonight
Sweet Peggy Sue?

The forests are on fire
The oceans are overflowing too
The sky is shifting from light blue
To a different kind of hue
She sits on the bench
Her legs crossed, her hair tossed
Oh but where are you tonight
My lovely Peggy Sue?

I've got one breath left
And I'll use it to find you
Mother churns the butter
As father stirs the stew
You're lost and away
With my soul and my pay
I ask it one last time:
Where are you tonight
My one and only cruel Peggy Sue?