She don't look like her mother, nothin' like her father
How else can you explain it? Must be somethin' in the water


Pigtails, overalls, freckles on her face
Skinny as a toothpick turned sideways
Somethin' happened to her when she turned 16

>From a little Dixie chicken to a Mississippi queen

Spent her days fishin' with a bamboo cane

Every night skinny dippin' in the Ponchartrain
If you were livin', breathin', had two feet
You'd be drawn to that girl like a bee to somethin' sweet


You could always find her when the night time fell
Crankin' off a bucket from that old stone well

Drinkin' from her hand, singin' at the moon
She don't look like her mother, nothin' like her father
How else can you explain it? Must be somethin' in the water


I'll never forget that look in her eyes
The night she snuck me down to the riverside

She wrapped herself around me like a honeysuckle vine
Her lips, they had a taste of wild cherry wine


You could always find her when the night time fell
Crankin' off a bucket from that old stone well
Drinkin' from her hand, singin' at the moon

She don't look like her mother, nothin' like her father
Folks 'round here say it's somethin' in the water


Two straight months without any rain
We never, ever saw that girl again
But I still got a picture burnin' in my head

Dancin' in a downpour, soakin' wet

You could always find her when the night time fell

Crankin' up a bucket from that old stone well
Drinkin' from her hand, singin' at the moon
She don't look like her mother, nothin' like her father

How else can you explain it? Must be somethin' in the water
She don't look like her mother, nothin' like her father
Folks 'round here say it's somethin' in the water


There must be something in the water now
Hey hey. Somethin' in the water...