Chris Bergson Band Hello Bertha lyrics

(*Lyrics by Chris Bergson and Kate Ross, Music by Chris Bergson)
(*CB Band Music - ASCAP / More Mirth Music - BMI)


She had a strange cadence about her*
She tended back bar
Up at Buck Fowler’s
Rolling in Sunday nights
Just trying to catch my breath
Hello Bertha
It’s good to see you again

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Shaking off the shackles of another shady week
Bathing in the warmth of her eyes
I wondered how she managed to keep that smile on her face
Listening to a week’s worth of lies

Details I can’t remember
In the dim light

and stank of this place
Hit a little a rough patch
I just gotta shake
Seems hard to believe
How quickly the good life can fade

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I tried in vain to imagine
the seconds of her life away from this place
She spoke of smoking in her garden
But I couldn’t picture
daylight on her face
I poured my heart by the pint
And she revealed nothing

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