Ray Stevens - Missippi Squirel Revival Lyrics
VERSE 1Well when I was a kid I would take a tripevery Summer down to "Mississipp," to visitmy Granny and 'er "Auntie Belluam World."I'd run barefooted all-day long, climbingtrees free as a song; One day I happenedto catch myself a squirrel.Well I stuffed him downin an old shoe box, and punched a coupleholes in the top; When Sunday came I snuck em'in the Church. I sittin' way back on the verylast pew showin em' to my good buddy Hugh,when that squirrel got loose and went totallybuzzerk.Well what happened next is hard to tell;some thought it was Heaven others thoughtit was Hell, but the fact that something wasamong was plain to see.As the choir sang " I Surrender All", thesquirrel ran up Harv Newman's coveralls, andHarv leaped to his feet and said something's gota hold on me yeeeooow!CHORUSThe day the squirrel went buzzerk in theFirst Self-Righteous Church in that sleepy littletown of Pascagoula. It was a fight for survivalthat broke out in revival. They were jumpin' pewsand shoutin' "Hallelujah".VERSE 2Well Harv hit the aisles dancin' and screamin'.Some thought he had Religion others thoughthe had a demon, and Harv thought he had aweed-eater loose in his fruit-of-the-looms.He fell to his knees to plead and beg, and thesquirrel ran out of his britchy-leg; unobservedto the otherside of the room.All the way down to the AMEN pew, where sat"Sister Bertha Better-than-You", who had beenwatching all of the commotion with sufistic glee.But shoot, you should have seen the look in her eyeswhen that squirrel jumped her garders and crossed herthighs. And she jumped to her feet and said,"Lord havemercy on me."As that squirrel mad laps inside her dress she began tocry and then to confess, to sins that would make asailor blush with shame. She told of gossip, and churchdesention, but thing that got the most attention was whenshe told of her Love Life and then she Started naming names.CHORUSVERSE 3Well seven Deacons and then the Pastor got saved, andtwenty-five thousand dollars got raised, and fiftyvolunteered for missions in the Congo on the spot.And even without an invitation there were at leastfive hundred rededications, and we all gotrebaptized whether we needed it or not.Now you've heard the Bible stories I guess of how he partedthe waters for Moses to pass. Oh the Miracles, God haswraught in this old world. But the one I'll remember till mydying day is when He put that church back on the narrow waywith a half crazed Mississippi squirrel.CHORUS (x2)
