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Ray Stevens - The Mississippi Squirrel Revival (Chord)
Submitter: jaywoody51 (0) on 11/14/13
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This version has attempted to correct a number of the words in other versions and I have endeavored to make sure that 
the chord changes match up with the correct word in the story.

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

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