Lyrics
Ooh-ooh
Well, when I was a kid, I'd take a trip every summer
Down to Mississippi to visit my granny in her Antebellum world
I'd run barefooted all day long
Climbing trees free as a song
One day, I happened to catch myself a squirrel
Well, I stuffed him down in an old shoebox and
Punched a couple holes in the top
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, 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 somethin' was among us was plain to see
As the choir sang, "I surrender all"
Squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls
And Harv leaped to his feet and said, "Somethin's got a hold on me! Yeah-ow!"
The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula (Pascagoula)
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shouting Hallelujah! (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 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'd been watchin' all the commotion with sadistic glee
You should've seen that look in her eyes
When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs
She jumped to her feet, said, "Lord have mercy on me"
As that squirrel made laps inside her dress
She began to cry and then to confess to sins, would make a sailor blush with shame
She told of gossip and church dissension, but the thing that got the most attention's
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 (Pascagoula)
It was a fight for survival that had broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shouting Hallelujah! (Hallelujah!)
Seven deacons and the pastor got saved
And twenty-five thousand dollars was raised
And 50 volunteered for missions in the Congo on the spot
And even without an invitation, there were at least five hundred rededications
And we all got rebaptized, whether we needed it or not
Now you've heard the Bible story, I guess
How He parted the waters for Moses to pass
All the miracles God has brought 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 that sleepy little town of Pascagoula (Pascagoula)
It was a fight for survival that had broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shouting Hallelujah! (Hallelujah!)
The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula (Pascagoula)
It was a fight for survival that had broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shouting Hallelujah!
