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This is the tab for the [G] run up to [C]. The run is the last three beats of the measure
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D|----2-| Then play the [C] chord to start the nest measure
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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
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