Well, when I was a kid I'd take a trip
every summer down the Mississippi
To visit my granny in
her antebellum world
I'd run barefooted all day long
climbin' trees free as a song
And one day I happened to
catch myself a squirrel
Well, I stuffed him down in
an old shoe bo , punched a
couple of holes in the top
And when Sunday came I
snuck him into Church
I was sittin' way back in the very last
pew showin' him to my good buddy Hugh
When that squirrel got loose
and went totally berserk
Well, what happened ne t is hard to tell
Some thought it was heaven
others thought it was hell
But the fact that something
was among us was plain to see
As the choir sang "I Surrender All" the
squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls
Harv leaped to his feet and said,
"Somethin's got a hold on me", Yeow!
The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self Righteous Church
In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival
that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews
and shoutin' Hallelujah!
Well, Harv hit the aisles
dancin' and screamin'
Some thought he had religion
others thought he had a demon
And Harv thought he had a weed eater
loose in his Fruit Of The Looms
He fell to his knees to plead
and beg and the squirrel
ran out of his britches leg
Unobserved to the other side of the room
All the way down to the amen pew where
sat Sister Bertha better than you
Who'd been watchin' all the
commotion with sadistic glee
But you should've seen
the look in her eyes
When that squirrel jumped her
garters and crossed her thighs
She jumped to her feet and
said "Lord have mercy on me"
As the squirrel made
laps inside her dress
She began to cry and then to
confess to sins that would
make a sailor blush with shame
She told of gossip and church
dissension but the thing
that got the most attention
Was when she talked about her love
life and then she started naming names
The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival
that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews
and shoutin' Hallelujah!
Well seven deacons and
the pastor got saved,
Twenty five thousand dollars was
raised and fifty volunteered
For missions in the Congo on the spot
Even without an invitation there were
at least five hundred rededications
And we all got baptized
whether we needed it or not
Now you've heard the bible story I guess
How he parted the waters
for Moses to pass
Oh the miracles God has
wrought in this old world
But the one I'll remember
'til my dyin' day
Is how he put that Church
back on the narrow way
With a half crazed Mississippi squirrel
The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self Righteous Church
In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival
that broke out in revival
They was jumpin' pews
and shoutin' Hallelujah!
The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self Righteous Church
In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival
that broke out in revival
They was jumpin' pews
and shoutin' Hallelujah!
