Getting Ready To Get Down

F
Mama got a look at you and got a 
little worried
Bb
Papa got a look at you and got a 
little worried
    F
The pastor got a look and said, 
"Y'all had better hurry"
         C
Send her off to a little Bible 
college in Missouri

    F
And now you come back, saying you 
know a little bit about
Bb
Every little thing they ever hoped 
you'd never figure out
F
Eve ate the apple cause the apple 
was sweet
           C
What kinda God would ever keep a 
girl from getting what she needs?


[Chorus]
    F
And I'm
                 Bb
Getting ready to get down
                 F
Getting ready to get down
                 C
Getting ready to get down

[Verse 2]
     F
Now, people cross the street when 
you walk in their direction
Bb
Talk between their teeth and 
throwin' epithets
        F
And the doctor thinks the devil 
must've got you by your senses
       C
But to live the way you please 
doesn't sound like possession

     F
It's four long years studying the 
Bible
Bb
Infidels, Jezebels, Salomes and 
Delilahs
F
Back off the bus in your own 
hometown
        C
Say you didn't like me then, you 
probably won't like me now


[Chorus]
    F
But I'm
                 Bb
Getting ready to get down
Continúa después del anuncio
                 F
Getting ready to get down
                 C
Getting ready to get down


[Bridge]
        Dm
All the men of the country club, the
 Ladies of 'Xiliary
Bb
Talk about love like it's apple pie 
and liberty
   F
To really be a saint, you gotta 
really be a virgin
C
Dry as a page of the King James 
version

    Dm
No "ooh la-las," no "oh, hell yeses"
    Bb
No "I can't wait 'til I gotta see 
you agains's"
     F
Just turn the other cheek, take no 
chances
C
Jesus hates your high school dances


[Instrumental]
F  Bb  F  C    x2


[Verse 3]
          F
Said your soul needed saving, so 
they sent you off to Bible school
    Bb
You learned a little more than they 
had heard was in the Golden Rule
    F
"Be good to everybody, be a strength
 to the weak
     C
Be a joy to the joyful, be the 
laughter in the grief"

    F
And give your love freely to whoever
 that you please
      Bb
Don't let nobody tell you 'bout to 
who you oughta be
    F
And when you get damned in the 
popular opinion
     C
It's just another damn of the damns 
you're not giving


[Chorus]
    F
And I'm
                     Bb
I'm gettin' ready to get down
                 F
Getting ready to get down
                 C
Getting ready to get down


[Verse 4]
F
Mama got a look at you and got a 
little worried
Bb
Papa got a look at you and got a 
little worried
    F
The pastor got a look and said, 
"Y'all had better hurry"
         C
Send her off to a little Bible 
college in Missouri

    F
And now, you come back, saying you 
know a little bit about
Bb
Every little thing they ever hoped 
you'd never figure out
    F
The Red Sea, The Dead Sea, the 
Sermon on the Mount
       C
If you wanna see a miracle, watch me
 GET C WN!


[Chorus]
    F
And I'm
                 Bb
Getting ready to get down
                 F
Getting ready to get down
                 C
Getting ready to get down
  Dm
I...
                     Bb
I'm gettin' ready to get down
                 F
Getting ready to get down
                 C
Getting ready to get down


[Otro]
F  Bb  F  C
F  Bb  F  G