Chords for Ray Stevens - "The Mississippi Squirrel Revival" (Music Video)

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_ _ _ _ _ Well, when I was a kid, [A] I'd take a trip [D] every summer down to Mississippi [F] to visit my granny
[G] and her [C] antebellum world.
[G] _ [C] I'd run [A] barefooted all day [D] long, climbing trees, free as a song.
[F] One day, I [G] happened to catch [C] myself a squirrel.
_ [F] Well, I stuffed him down in an old [C] shoebox and punched a couple holes in the [D] top.
When Sunday came, I snuck [G] him in the church.
[Em] _ [C] I was sitting way back in the [A] very last pew, [D] showing him to my good buddy Hugh.
When [F] that squirrel got loose, it [G] went totally [C] berserk. _ _
[Am] What happened next is hard to tell.
Some thought it was heaven, some thought it was hell, but the fact that something was
among us was plain to see.
As the choir sang, I Surrender All, the squirrel ran up Harv Newland's coveralls, and [D] Harv
leaped to his feet and said, Something's got a hold [G] on me!
Yow!
The day [C] the squirrel went berserk, [D] in the first self-righteous church, in [F] that sleepy
little [G] town of [C] Pashto Hula.
_ [G] It was [C] a fight for survival [D] that broke out in revival.
They [F] were jumping, [G] fusing, shouting, [C] Hallelujah! _ _
Well, Harv hit the [A] aisle 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, and [C] he screwed the loose.
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[C] He fell to his [A] knees to plead and beg, [D] and that squirrel ran out of his bridge's [F] leg,
unobserved, [G] to the other [C] side of the room. _ _
[F] All the way down to the Amen [C] pew, where sat Sister Bertha Better Than [D] You, who had been
watching all the commotion with [G] sadistic [Em] glee. _
[C] Should have [A] seen that look in her [D] eyes when that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her [F] thighs.
She jumped to her [G] feet and said, Lord, have [C] mercy on me! _
[Am] As that squirrel made laps inside her dress, she began to cry, and then to confess the
sins and make a sailor blush with shame. _
She told of gossip and church dissension, but the thing that got the most attentions
[D] was she talked about her love life.
[G] And then she started naming names!
The day [C] the squirrel went berserk, [D] in the first self-righteous church, [F] in that sleepy
little [G] town of [C] Pashto Hula.
[G] It was [C] a fight for survival [D] that broke out in revival.
They [F] were jumping, fusing, [G] shouting, [C] Hallelujah! _ _
Well, seven deacons [A] and the pastor got [D] saved, and $25,000 was [F] raised, and 50 [G] volunteered
for missions in the [C] Congo on the [G] spot.
[C] And even without [A] an invitation, there were [D] at least 500 rededications, [F] and we all got
[G] rebaptized, whether we [C] needed it or not.
Now, [F] you've heard the Bible story, I guess, how [C] he parted the waters for Moses to pass
[D] over, the miracles God has wrought in this [G] old world.
_ [Em] [G] But [C] the one I'll remember [A] till my dying day [D] is how he put that church back on the narrow
[F] way with a half [G]-crazed [C] Mississippi squirrel.
The day the squirrel went berserk, [D] in the first self-righteous church, in [F] that sleepy
[G] little town of [C] Pashto Hula.
[G] It was [C] a fight for survival [D] that broke out in revival.
[F] They were jumping, fusing, [G] shouting, [C] Hallelujah!
_ The day the squirrel went berserk, [D] in the first self-righteous church, in [F] that sleepy
[G] little town of [C] Pashto Hula.
_ [G] It was [C] a fight for survival [D] that broke out in revival.
They [F] were jumping, fusing, [G] shouting, [C] Hallelujah! _ _ _
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