Miss Squirrel Revival chords by Ray Stevens

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
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Verse:
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Well when I was a kid I'd take a trip
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Every summer down to Mississipp'
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To visit my granny and her antebellum world
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I'd run barefooted all day long
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Climbin' trees free as a song
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One day I happened to catch myself a squirrel
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Well I stuffed him down in an old shoe box
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And punched a couple of holes in the top
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And when sunday came I snuck him into church
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I was sittin' way back in the very last pew
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Showin' him to my good buddy hugh
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When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk
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Well what happened next is hard to tell
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Some thought it was Heaven others thought it was Hell
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But the fact that something was among us was plain to
see
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As the choir sang "I surrender all"
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The squirrel ran up Harve Newman's cover-alls
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And Harve leaped to his feet and said
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"Something's got a hold on me" YEOW!!

Chorus:
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   The day the squirrel went berserk
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   In the First Self Righteous Church
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   In that sleepy little town of Pastagoola
(Pastagoola)
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   It was a fight for survival
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   That broke out in revival
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   They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' hallelujah
(halleluja)

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Well Harve hit the aisles a-dancin' and screamin'
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Some thought he had religion others thought he had a demon
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And Harve 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
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And the squirrel ran out of his britches leg
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Unobserved to the other side of the room
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All the way down to the Amen pew
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Where sat Sister Bertha-Better-Than-You
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Who'd been watching all the commotion with sadistic glee
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Well you should'a seen the look in her eyes
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When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs
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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 would make a sailor blush with shame
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She told of gossip and church disention
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But the thing that got the most attention
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Was when she talked about her love life
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And then she started namin' names

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Well seven deacons and the pastor got saved
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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
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There were at least five hundred re-dedications
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And we all got re-baptised whether we needed it or not
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Now you've heard the Bible story I guess
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How he parted the waters for Moses to pass
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Oh the miracles God has wrought in this old world
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But the one I'll remember 'til my dying day
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Is how he put that church back on the narrow way
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With a half crazed Mississippi squirrel