This is the tab for the [G] run up to [C]. The run is the last three beats of the measure e|------| B|------| G|------| D|----2-| Then play the [C] chord to start the nest measure A|--O---| E|3-----| INTRO: [F] – [C] [G] run up to [C] [C] [A7] Well when I was a kid I'd take a trip [D7] Every summer down to Mississipp' [F] [G] [C] [G] run up to [C] To visit my granny and her antebellum world [C] [A7] I'd run barefooted all day long [D7] Climbin' trees free as a song [F] [G] [C] And one day I happened to catch myself a squirrel [F] Well I stuffed him down in an old shoe box [C] And punched a couple of holes in the top [D] [G] And when Sunday came I snuck him into church [C] [A7] I was sittin' way back in the very last pew [D7] A Showin' him to my good buddy Hugh [F] [G] [C] When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk [Am] Well what happened next is hard to tell [Am] Some thought it was Heaven others thought it was Hell [Am] But the fact that something was among us was plain to see [Am] As the choir sang "I surrender all" [Am] The squirrel ran up Harve Newman's cover-alls [D] And Harve leaped to his feet and said [G] "Something's got a hold on me" YEOW!! CHORUS NC [C] The day the squirrel went berserk [D] In the First Self Righteous Church [F] [G] [C] In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula [G] run up to [C] It was a fight for survival [D] That broke out in revival [F] [G] [C] They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' hallelujah (halleluja) [C] [A7] Well Harve hit the aisles a-dancin' and screamin' [D7] Some thought he had religion others thought he had a demon [F] [G] [C] [G] run up to [C] And Harve thought he had a weed eater loose in his fruit of the looms [C] [A7] He fell to his knees to plead and beg [D7] And that squirrel ran out of his britches leg [F] [G] [C] Unobserved to the other side of the room [F] All the way down to the Amen pew [C] Where sat Sister Bertha-Better-Than-You [D] [G] Who'd been watching all the commotion with sadistic glee [C] [A7] Well you should've seen the look in her eyes [D7] When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs [F] [G] [C] She jumped to her feet and said "Lord have mercy on me" [Am] As the squirrel made laps inside her dress [Am] She began to cry and then to confess [Am] To sins that would make a sailor blush with shame [Am] She told of gossip and church dissention [Am] But the thing that got the most attention [D] Was when she talked about her love life [G] And then she started namin' names CHORUS [C] [A7] Well seven deacons and the pastor got saved [D7] And twenty five thousand dollars got raised [F] [G] [C] [G] run up to [C] And fifty volunteered for missions in the Congo - on the spot [C] [A7] And even without an invitation [D7] There were at least five hundred re-dedications [F] [G] [C] And we all got re-baptized whether we needed it or not [F] Now you've heard the Bible story I guess [C] How he parted the waters for Moses to pass [D] [G] Oh the miracles God has wrought in this old world [C] [A7] But the one I'll remember 'til my dying day [D7] Is how he put that church back on the narrow way [F] [G] [C] With a half crazed Mississippi squirrel CHORUS OUTRO – (Slow slightly) [F] [G] [C] [F] [C] They Were jumpin' pews and Shoutin' hallelujah