Mississippi Squirrel Revival Chords

[Verse 1]
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When I was a kid we’d take a trip, every summer down to Mississip’
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To visit my Grannie in her antebellum world.
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Well, I’d run barefoot all day long, climbing trees as free as a song
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And then, one day I caught myself a squirrel.
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Well, I stuffed him down in an ol’ shoe box, an’ punched a couple of holes in the top
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And when Sunday came along, I snuck him into church.
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Well, I’s sittin’ way back in the very last pew, a’showin him to my good buddy Hugh
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When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk!
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What happened next is hard to tell,
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some thought it was heaven some thought it was hell,
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but the fact that sumptn’s amoung us was plain to tell
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As the choir sang "I Surrender All", the squirrel ran up Harv Newman’s coveralls
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Harv jumped to his feet and said "Sumpn’s got a hol’ a me!"
 
[Chorus]
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The day the squirrel went berserk in the First Self-Righteous Church,
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In the sleepy little town of Pasquagulla.
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It was a fight for survival, that broke out in revival
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They were jumpin’ pews and singing  "Hallelujah!"
 
[Verse 2]
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Well, Harv hit the aisles a dancin’ and a screamin’
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Some thought he had religion, some thought he had a demon,
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But Harv thought he had a weed-eater loose in his "fruit of the looms"
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He fell to his knees to plead and beg and the squirrel ran out his britches leg
 
Unobserved by the other side of the room.
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Well, it ran on down to the Amen pew where sat Sister Bertha Better-Than-You
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Who’d been watchin’ all the commotion with sadistic glee.
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Well, you should’a seen the look in her eyes when that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs
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And she jumped to her feet and said "LORD HAVE MERCY ON ME"
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As the squirrel made laps inside her dress
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She began to cry and then to confess
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To sins that’d make a sailor blush with shame.
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She told of gossip and church dissention, but the thing that got the most attention
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Is when she talked about her love life and started naming names!
 
[Chorus]
                C                          D7
The day the squirrel went berserk in the First Self-Righteous Church,
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In the sleepy little town of Pasquagulla.
         C                        D7
It was a fight for survival, that broke out in revival
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They were jumpin’ pews and singing  "Hallelujah!"
 
[Verse 3]
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Well, seven deacons and the pastor got saved and twenty-five thousand dollars got raised
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and fifty volunteered for missions in the Congo on the spot.
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And even without an invitation, there were at least five hundred rededications,
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and we all got rebaptized whether we needed it or not.
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Now, you’ve heard the Bible story I guess, how God parted the waters so Moses could pass.
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Oh, the miracles God has wrought in this ol’ world
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But the one I’ll remember to my dying day, is how He put that church on the narrow way
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With one half crazed Mississipi Squirrel.
 
[Chorus]
                C                          D7
The day the squirrel went berserk in the First Self-Righteous Church,
       F             G              C     G7
In the sleepy little town of Pasquagulla.
         C                        D7
It was a fight for survival, that broke out in revival
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They were jumpin’ pews and singing  "Hallelujah!"
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