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From alt.guitar.tab Sat Oct 15 22:12:55 1994 From: scawa@aol.com (SCAWA) Date: 15 Oct 1994 13:28:10 -0400 Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab Subject: CRD: Mississippi Squirrel Revival Mississippi Squirrel Revival words and music: Ray Stevens artists: Ray Stevens
CWhen I was a kid we'd A7take a trip, every sD7ummer down to Mississip' To vFisit my Grannie and my GAunt Bellum CWhirl. G7 C
Well, I'd run barefoot all day long, climbing trees as free as a song And then, one day I caught myself a squirrel.
Well, I sFtuffed him down in an ol' shoe box, an' Cpunched a couple of holes
in the top
And when D7Sunday came along, I snuck him into cGhurch. Well, I'us sCittin' way back in the vA7ery last pew, a'sD7howin him to my good buddy Hugh When that sFquirrel got loose and went tGotally bezerk! What hAmappened next is hard to tell, some thought it was heaven some thought
it was hell, but the fact that sumptn's amoung us was plain to tell As the choir sand "I Surrender All", the squirrel ran up Harv Newman's
coveralls; and he jD7umped to his feet and said "Sumpn's got a hoGl' a me!"
Chorus:
The day the sCquirrel went bezerk in the D7First Sub-Baptist Church, In the Fsleepy little Gtown of PasquagCulla. G7
It was a fight for survival, that turned up in revival They were jumpin' pews and singing "Hallejulia". Well, Harv hit the aisles a dancin' and a screamin' Some thought he had religion, some thought he had a demon, But Harv thought he had a weed-eater loose in his "fruit of the looms" He fell to his knees to plead and beg and the squirrel ran out his britches leg Imbeknownst to the far side of the room. Well, it ran on down to the Amen pew where sat Sister Berthat Better than you Who'd been watchin' all the commotion with sadistic glee. Well, you should'a seen the look in here eyes when that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs And she jumped to her feet and said "LORD HAVE MERCY ON ME" As the squirrel made laps inside her dress She began to cry and then to confess To sins that'd make a sailor blush with shame. She told of gossip and church dessention, but the thing that got the most attention Is when she talked about her love life and started naming names! Chorus Well, seven deacons and the pastor got saved and twenty-five thousand dollars got raised and fifty volunteered for missions in the Congo on the spot. And even without an invitation, here were at least five hundred rededications, and we all got rebaptized wheter we needed it or not. Now, you've heard the Bible story I guess, how God parted the waters so Moses could pass. Oh, The miracles God has wroght in this ol' world But the one I'll remember to my dying day, is how He put that church on the narrow way With one hald crazed Mississipi Squirrel. Chorus