Mississippi Squirrel Revival Chords by Home Free

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But when I was a kid [A] I'd take a trip [D] every summer down to [F] Mississippi to visit my granny
[G] and her antebellum [C] world.
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[C] I'd run barefooted [A] all day [D] long, climbing trees, frees a song.
[F] One day I happened [G] to catch myself a [C] squirrel.
I [F] stuffed him down in an old shoe [C] box, punched a couple holes in the top.
[D] When Sunday came I snuck him into [G] church. _ _
[C] I was sitting way back [A] in the very last few, [D] showing him to my good buddy Hugh, when [F] that
squirrel got loose and [G] went totally [C] berserk. _ _
[Am] What happened next is hard to tell.
Some thought it was heaven, others thought it was hell, but the fact that something was
among us was plain to see.
[Em] _
[Am] As the choir sang, I surrender all, the squirrel ran up Harv Newland's coveralls, [D] Harv leaped
to his feet and said, something's got a hold [G] on me.
_ [Em]
The day [G] the squirrel went [B] berserk, [D] in the first self-righteous church, [F] in that sleepy
[G] little town of [C] Pascadoola.
[D]
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival.
They [F] were jumping, [G] pusing, shouting, [C] Hallelujah! _ _
Harv hid in the [A] aisles, dancing and screaming.
[D] Some thought he had religion, others thought he had a [F] demon, and Harv thought he [G] had a
weed eater loose in his Fruit of the Loom. _
[C] He fell to his [A] knees to plead and beg, [D] and that squirrel ran out of his bridge's leg,
[F] unobserved, [G] to the other side [C] of the room. _ _
[F] All the way down to the Amen pew, [C] where sat Sister Bertha, better than you, [D] who'd been
watching all the commotion with [G] sadistic glee. _
[C] Well, you should have seen [A] the look in her eyes [D] when that squirrel jumped her garter and
crossed her thighs.
[F] She jumped to her feet [G] and said, Lord have [C] mercy on me! _
[Am] As the squirrel made laps inside her dress, she began to cry and then to confess sins
that would make a sailor blood [E] crochet. _ _
[Am] He told of gossip and church dissension, but the thing that got the most attention [D] was
when she talked about her love life, [G] and then she started [Em] naming names!
The [C] band of squirrel went berserk, [D] in the first self-righteous church, [F] in that sleepy
[G] little town of [C] Pascadoola.
It [G] was a fight [C] for survival [D] that broke out in revival.
[F] They were jumping [G] pews and shouting, [C] Hallelujah! _
Well, seven [A] deacons and the pastor got [D] saved, and $25,000 [F] got raised, and 50 [G] volunteered
for missions [C] in the Congo on the spot.
And even [A] without an invitation, [D] there were at least 500 [F] rededications, and we all got
[G] rebaptized whether [C] we needed it or not. _
[F] Now you've heard the Bible stories, I [C] guess, how we parted the water for most of the [D] past,
oh, the miracles God has brought [G] to this old world. _
[C] But the one I'll [A] remember to my dying [D] day is how he put that church back on the narrow
[F] way with a half [G]-crazed Mississippi [C] squirrel.
The band of squirrel went berserk, [D] in the first self-righteous church, [F] in that sleepy
[G] little town of [C] Pascadoola.
[D]
It [G] was a fight [C] for survival [D] that broke out in revival.
[F] They were jumping [G] pews and shouting, [C] Hallelujah! _
But they, the squirrel went berserk, [D] in the first self-righteous church, [F] in that sleepy
little town [C] of Pascadoola.
It was a fight for survival [D] that broke out in revival.
[E] They were jumping [Gm] pews and shouting, [C] Hallelujah! _ _
[Em] They were jumping [G] pews and shouting, Hallelujah! _