Mississippi Squirrel Revival Lyrics

Mississippi Squirrel Revival lyrics

Well when I was kid I'd take a trip
every summer,
down to
Mississippi.
To visit my granny in her ante bellum world.I'd run barefooted
all day long,
climbing trees free as a song.
One day I happened catch
myself a squirrel.
I stuffed him down in an old shoebox,
punched a couple
holes in the top and when Sunday came,
I snuck him into church.
I was
sittin way back in the very last pew
showin him to my good buddy
Hugh,
when that squirrel got loose
and went totally berserk!

Well
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.
As the choir sang I Surrender All 
the squirrel ran up Harv
Newlan's coveralls
harv leaped to his feet anmd said, 
"Somethin's
got a hold on me!"
YEOW

The day the squirrel went berserk.
In
the First Self-Righteous Church
Of that sleepy little town of
Pascagoula.
It was a fight for survival,
that broke out in
revival.
They were jumpin pews and shouting Halelujah!

Well Harv hit
the isles dancin and screamin
some thought he had religion 
others
thought he had a demon
Harv thought he had a weed eater loose 
in his
fruit of the looms.
He fell to his knees to plead and beg,
and that
squirrel ran out of his britches leg,
unobserved to the other side of the
room.

All the way down to the Amen pew 
where sat Sister Bertha
better than you
Who had been watching all the commotion
with sadistic
glee.
You should've seen the look in her eyes 
when that squirrel jumped
her garters and crossed her thighs.
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 would make a
sailor blush with shame.

She told of gossip and church disention,
but
the thing that got the most attention
is when she talked about her love life

then she started naming names!

The day the squirrel went
berserk.
In the First Self-Righteous Church
Of that sleepy little town of
Pascagoula.
It was a fight for survival,
that broke out in
revival.
They were jumpin pews and shouting Halelujah!

Well seven
deacons and the pastor got saved 
and 25,000 dollars got raised.
And 50
volunteered for missions in the Congo 
on the spot.
and even without and
invitaion
there were at least 500 rededications.
And we ALL got
rebaptised whether we needed it or not.

Well you've heard the Bible
stories I guess
of how he parted the waters for Moses to pass.
All th
miracles God has brought to this l' world.
But the one I'll remember to my
dyin day 
is how he put that church back on the narrow way
with a half
crazed Mississippi Squirrel

The day the squirrel went berserk.
In the
First Self-Righteous Church
Of that sleepy little town of Pascagoula.
It
was a fight for survival,
that broke out in revival.
They were jumpin
pews and shouting Halelujah!