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[Verse 1]
CWhen I was a kid we’d A7take a trip, every D7summer down to Mississip’ To vFisit my Grannie in her Gantebellum Cworld. G7 CWell, I’d run barefoot all day long, A7climbing trees as free as a song And Fthen, one day I Gcaught myself a Csquirrel. G7 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’s siCttin’ way back in the veA7ry last pew, a’shD7owin him to my good buddy Hugh When that sFquirrel got loose and went tGotally bersCerk! What hAmappened next is hard to tell, Amsome thought it was heaven some thought it was hell, Ambut the fact that sumptn’s amoung us was plain to tell AmAs the choir sang "I Surrender All", the squirrel ran up Harv Newman’s coveralls Harv juD7mped to his feet and said "GSumpn’s got a hol’ a Cme!"
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The day the squiCrrel went berserk in the FiD7rst Self-Righteous Church, In the Fsleepy little Gtown of PasquagCulla. G7 It was a Cfight for survival, that D7broke out in revival They were Fjumpin’ pews and Gsinging "CHallelujah!"
[Verse 2]
CWell, Harv hit the aisA7les a dancin’ and aD7 screamin’ Some Fthought he had religion, some Gthought he had a Cdemon, G7 CBut Harv thought he had a A7weed-eater loose in his "D7fruit of the looms" He Ffell to his knees to plead and beg and the sGquirrel ran out his Cbritches leg
Unobserved by the other side of the room.
Well, it Cran on down to the A7Amen pew where sat Sister D7Bertha Better-Than-You Who’d been Fwatchin’ all the commotion with Gsadistic Cglee. G7 Well, Cyou should’a seen the A7look in her eyes when that sD7quirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs And she jFumped to her feet and said "GLORD HAVE MERCY ON CME" AmAs the squirrel made laps inside her dress AmShe began to cry and then to confess AmTo sins that’d make a sailor blush with shame. AmShe told of gossip and church dissention, but the thing that got the most attention Is when she D7talked about her love life and started naming Gnames!
[Chorus]
The day the squiCrrel went berserk in the FiD7rst Self-Righteous Church, In the Fsleepy little Gtown of PasquagCulla. G7 It was a Cfight for survival, that D7broke out in revival They were Fjumpin’ pews and Gsinging "HCallelujah!"
[Verse 3]
CWell, seven deacons and the A7pastor got saved and tD7wenty-five thousand dollars got raised and Ffifty volunteered for missions in the GCongo on the sCpot. G7 CAnd even without an inA7vitation, there were at least D7five hundred rededications, and Fwe all got rebaptized whether we Gneeded it or Cnot. G7 AmNow, you’ve heard the Bible story I guess, how God parted the waters so Moses could pass. AmOh, the miracles God has wrought in this ol’ world AmBut the one I’ll remember to my dying day, is how He put that church on the narrow way AmWith one half crazed Mississipi Squirrel.
[Chorus]
The day the squiCrrel went berserk in the FiD7rst Self-Righteous Church, In the Fsleepy little Gtown of PasquagCulla. G7 It was a Cfight for survival, that D7broke out in revival They were Fjumpin’ pews and Gsinging "CHallelujah!" G7 G C