<+B><:#184,9360><:f160,,>Recorded by: Ray Stevens / Greatest Hits
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<:#560,9360><:f240,,><:f><:f240,,><:f><:f240,,>Well when I was a kid I'd take a trip every summer down to Mississip.
<:f><:f240,,>To visit my granny and her aunty Beluim Wirl. <:f><:f240,,>I'd run bare footed all day long, climbin' trees, free as a song.
<:#1960,9360><:f240,,>One day I happened to catch myself a squirrel. <:f><:f240,,>Well I stuffed him down in a old shoe box punched a couple of holes in the top.
<:f><:f240,,>When Sunday came, I snuck him into church. <:f><:f240,,>I was sittin' way back in the very last pew, showin' him to my good buddy<:f><:f240,,> Hue.
<:f><:f240,,>When that squirrel got lose and went totally bazerk<:f><:f240,,>.
<:f><:f240,,>What happened next is hard to tell, some thought it was heaven others thought it was hell.
<:f><:f240,,>But the fact that something was among was plain to see.
<:f><:f240,,>As the choir sang I surrender all the squirrel ran up Harv Newman's coveralls.
<:f><:f240,,>And Harv leaped to his feet and said somethin's got a hold on me.
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<:#840,9360><:f240,,>The day the squirrel went bezerk in the First Self Righteous Church.
<:f><:f240,,>In that sleepy little town of Pascagula. <:f><:f240,,>It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival.
<:f><:f240,,>They were jumping pews and shouting hallelujah<:f><:f240,,>.
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<:#1400,9360><:f240,,>Well Harv hit the aisles dancin<:f><:f240,,>' and screamin',
<:f><:f240,,>Some thought he had religion others thought he had a demon.
<:f><:f240,,>And Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his fruit of the looms.
<:f><:f240,,>He fell to his knees to plead and beg and the squirrel ran out of his britches leg.
<:f><:f240,,>Unobserved to other side of the room. <:f><:f240,,>All the way down to the amen pew where sat sister Bertha better than you.
<:f><:f240,,>Who been watching all the commotion with sadistically.
<:f><:f240,,>You should have seen the look in her eyes
<:#1400,9360><:f240,,>When that squirrel jumped her garters<:f><:f240,,> and crossed her thighs.
<:f><:f240,,>She jumped to her feet and said Lord have mercy on me.
<:f><:f240,,>As the squirrel made laps inside her dress she began to cry and then to confess.
<:f><:f240,,>To sins that would make a sailor blush with shame. <:f><:f240,,>She told of gossip and church desention but the thing that got the most attention.
<:f><:f240,,>Was when she talked about her love life, and then she started namin' names.
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<:#840,9360><:f240,,><:f><:f240,,><:f240,,>The day the squirrel went bezerk at the First Self Righteous Church.
<:f><:f240,,>In that sleepy little town of Pascagula. <:f><:f240,,>It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival.
<:f><:f240,,>They were jumping pews and shouting hallelujah<:f><:f240,,>.<:f>
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<:#1680,9360><:f240,,>Well seven deacons and the pastor got saved, and $25,000 got raised and 50 volunteered<:f><:f240,,> for missions in the Congo on the spot. And even without and invitation there were at least 500 rededications<:f><:f240,,> and we all got rebaptized
whether we needed or not. Now you've heard the bible story I guess how he parted the waters for Moses to pass, oh the miracles God has wrought in this old world. But one I'll remember till my dying<:f><:f240,,> day is how he put that church back on the narr
ow way with a half crazed Mississippi squirrel.
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<:f240,,><:f><:f240,,><:f240,,><:f><:f240,,><:f240,,>The day the squirrel went bezerk at the First Self Righteous Church.
<:f><:f240,,>In that sleepy little town of Pascagula. <:f><:f240,,>It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival.
<:f><:f240,,>They were jumping pews and shouting hallelujah<:f><:f240,,>
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