🎵
Mississippi Squirrel Revival
Album: The Incredible World of Ray Stevens - Mississippi Squirrel Revival
Durasi: 3:46
[00:09.37]Well when I was kid I'd take a trip
[00:11.71]Every summer, down to Mississippi
[00:14.26]To visit my granny in her ante bellum world
[00:18.88]I'd run barefooted all day long
[00:21.19]Climbing trees free as a song
[00:22.97]One day I happened catch myself a squirrel
[00:27.60]Well I stuffed him down in an old shoebox
[00:30.43]Punched a couple holes in the top and when Sunday came
[00:33.41]I snuck him into church
[00:36.51]I was sittin' way back in the very last pew
[00:39.48]Showin' him to my good buddy Hugh
[00:41.20]When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk!
[00:45.75]Well what happened next is hard to tell
[00:47.85]Some thought it was Heaven others thought it was Hell
[00:50.35]But the fact that something was among us was plain to see
[00:54.45]As the choir sang "I Surrender All"
[00:56.78]Squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls
[00:58.92]Harv leaped to his feet and said
[01:00.22]"Somethin's got a hold on me! Yeow!"
[01:02.83]The day the squirrel went berserk
[01:05.48]In the First Self-Righteous Church
[01:07.73]In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula (Pascagoula)
[01:11.81]It was a fight for survival
[01:14.32]That broke out in revival
[01:16.63]They were jumpin pews and shouting Hallelujah! (Hallelujah)
[01:21.39]Well, Harv hit the aisles dancin' and screamin'
[01:23.47]Some thought he had religion
[01:24.65]Others thought he had a demon
[01:25.79]And Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his Fruit-Of-The-Looms
[01:30.13]He fell to his knees to plead and beg
[01:32.47]And the squirrel ran out of his britches leg
[01:34.66]Unobserved, to the other side of the room
[01:39.05]All the way down to the amen pew
[01:41.53]Where sat Sister Bertha better-than-you
[01:43.65]Who'd been watchin' all the commotion with sadistic glee
[01:48.04]But you should've seen the look in her eyes
[01:50.20]When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs
[01:52.46]She jumped to her feet and said "Lord have mercy on me"
[01:56.87]As the squirrel made laps inside her dress
[01:58.91]She began to cry and then to confess to sins that would make a sailor blush with shame
[02:05.78]She told of gossip and church dissension but the thing that got the most attention
[02:09.95]Was when she talked about her love life
[02:11.81]And then she started naming names!
[02:14.13]The day the squirrel went berserk
[02:16.42]In the First Self-Righteous Church
[02:18.57]In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula (Pascagoula)
[02:22.69]It was a fight for survival
[02:25.19]That broke out in revival
[02:27.49]They were jumpin' pews and shouting Hallelujah! (Hallelujah)
[02:32.12]Well seven deacons and then the pastor got saved
[02:34.63]And twenty-five thousands dollars was raised
[02:36.88]And fifty volunteered for missions in the Congo on the spot, hehe
[02:40.96]And even without an invitation
[02:42.95]There were at least five hundred rededications
[02:45.50]And we all got re-baptized whether we needed it or not
[02:49.89]Now you've heard the Bible stories I guess
[02:51.82]Of how He parted the waters for Moses to pass
[02:54.38]All the miracles God has brought to this ol' world
[02:58.45]But the one I'll remember to my dyin' day
[03:01.02]Is how he put that church back on the narrow way
[03:03.41]With a half-crazed Mississippi squirrel
[03:06.92]The day the squirrel went berserk
[03:09.79]In the First Self-Righteous Church
[03:12.07]In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula (Pascagoula)
[03:15.75]It was a fight for survival
[03:18.34]That broke out in revival
[03:20.61]They were jumpin pews and shouting Halelujah! (Halelujah)
[03:24.75]The day the squirrel went berserk
[03:27.21]In the First Self-Righteous Church
[03:29.68]In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula (Pascagoula)
[03:33.66]It was a fight for survival
[03:36.48]That broke out in revival
[03:38.05]They were jumpin...
[03:40.98]🎵