Mississippi Squirrel Revival
Well, when I was a kid I'd
take a trip
Every summer, down to
Mississip'
To visit my Granny and
her antebellum world
I'd run
barefooted all day long
Climbin'
trees, free as a song
One day I
happened to catch myself a squirrel
Well I stuffed him down in an old shoe
box
And punched a couple holes in
the top
When Sunday came, I snuck
him into church
I's 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
somethin'
was among us was plain to
see
As the choir sang "I surrender
all"
The squirrel run up Harv
Newman's coveralls
Harv leaped to
his feet and said
"Somethin's got
ahold of me! Yow!"
The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town
of Pascagoula, Mississippi
It was a fight for survival
That broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and
shoutin' Halelujah, Halelujah
Well, Harv hit the
aisles
dancin' and
screamin'
Some thought he had
religion,
others thought he had a
demon
And Harv thought he had
a
Weed Eater loose in his Fruit of
the Looms
He fell to his knees to
plead and beg
And the 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'd been watching
all the
commotion with sadistic
glee
But you shoulda seen the look
in her eyes
When that squirrel
jumped her
garters and crossed her
thighs
And 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 dissention
But the thing that got the most
attention
Was when she talked about
her
love life, and then she started
naming names
Well, seven deacons and the Pastor got
saved
And twenty five thousand
dollars got raised
And fifty
volunteered for
missions in the
Congo on the spot
And even without
an invitation
There were at least
five hundred rededications
And we
all got rebaptized, whether we needed it or not
Now you've heard the Bible story, I
guess
How He parted the waters for
Moses to pass
O, the miracles God
has wrought in this old world
But
the one I'll remember 'til my dying day
Is how He put that church back on the narrow way
With a half-crazed Mississippi
squirrel
ARTIST: Ray Stevens
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