Day 7 Soundtrack of My Life 2015
Mississippi Squirrel Revival |
I've enjoyed funny songs for a long time. I actually remember the song Junk Food Junkie! But better than than that was The Streak. I remember when I was about ten, my sister coming home with the 45 and playing it for me. I remember experiencing both laughter and shock listening to it. I learned years later that there were seventeen songs about the streaking craze, but Ray Stevens had the only one people paid attention to. My husband possessed a tape of Ray Stevens songs, and he played them for me. I knew about The Streak, but I'd never heard the others. My favorite song on that tape is Mississippi Squirrel Revival. That may actually be my all-time favorite of his songs. Mississippi Squirrel Lyrics Artist: Ray Stevens (Buy Ray Stevens CDs) Well when I was kid I'd take a trip every summer, down to Mississippi. To visit my granny in her ante bellum world.I'd run barefooted all day long, climbing trees free as a song. One day I happened catch myself a squirrel. I stuffed him down in an old shoebox, punched a couple 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 next 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 anmd said, "Somethin's got a hold on me!" YEOW The day the squirrel went berserk. In the First Self-Righteous Church Of that sleepy little town of Pascagoula. It was a fight for survival, that broke out in revival. They were jumpin pews and shouting Halelujah! Well Harv hit the isles dancin and screamin some thought he had religion others thought he had a demon Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his fruit of the looms. He fell to his knees to plead and beg, and that 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 had been watching all the commotion with sadistic glee. 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 disention, but the thing that got the most attention is when she talked about her love life then she started naming names! The day the squirrel went berserk. In the First Self-Righteous Church Of that sleepy little town of Pascagoula. It was a fight for survival, that broke out in revival. They were jumpin pews and shouting Halelujah! Well seven deacons and the pastor got saved and 25,000 dollars got raised. And 50 volunteered for missions in the Congo on the spot. and even without and invitaion there were at least 500 rededications. And we ALL got rebaptised whether we needed it or not. Well you've heard the Bible stories I guess of how he parted the waters for Moses to pass. All th miracles God has brought to this l' world. But the one I'll remember to 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 Of that sleepy little town of Pascagoula. It was a fight for survival, that broke out in revival. They were jumpin pews and shouting Halelujah! |