Kunci: C major
Verse 1
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Well, when I was a kid,
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I'd take a trip every summer down to Mississippi
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to visit my granny and her
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antebellum world.
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I'd run barefooted all day long,
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climbing trees free as a song.
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One day, I happened to catch
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myself a squirrel.
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Well, I stuffed him down in
an old shoe box
in the top
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When Sunday came, I snuck him into church
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Showin' him to my good buddy Hugh
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When that squirrel got loose
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and went totally berserk
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Well, what happened next is hard to tell
Some thought it was heaven,
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others thought it was hell
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But the fact that somethin'
was among us
was plain to see
As the choir sang, I Surrender
All, the squirrel run up
Harv Dillon's coveralls
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And Harv leaped to his feet
and said,
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Something's got a hold on me!
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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 sleeping little town of Pascagoula
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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 jumping, fusing,
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Well, Harv hit the aisles dan
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Some thought he had religion,
others thought he had a demon
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And Harv thought he had a weed
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-eater loose in his fruit and blooms
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He fell to his knees to plead
and beg
of his bridge's 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
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But you should have seen the
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when that squirrel jumped
her garters
and crossed her thighs
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and she jumped to her feet
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and said, Lord, have mercy on me.
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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 dissension,
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 naming names
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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 Pascagoula
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It was a fight for survival,
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but then look out in revival
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and shouting Hallelujah!
Well, seven deacons
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And 50 volunteered for missions
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in the Congo on the spot
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and even without an invitation
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there were at least 500 rededications
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and we all got re -baptized
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whether we needed it or not.
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Now you've heard the Bible story
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I guess how he parted the waters
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for Moses to pass all the miracles
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God has wrought in this old world
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but the one I'll remember
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is how he put that church
back on the narrow way
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with a half -crazed Mississippi
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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 Pascagoula
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It was a fight for survival
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that broke out in revival
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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 Pascagoula
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It was a fight for survival
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that broke out in revival
fusing, shouting, hallelujah
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