Miss Squirrel Revival

INTRO: F - C
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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
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 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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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"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 
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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
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 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 
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squirrel