Key: C major
Verse 1
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Well, when I was a kid,
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I'd take a trip every summer down to Mississippi
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to visit my granny and her
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antebellum world.
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I'd run barefooted all day long,
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myself a squirrel.
an old shoe box
in the top
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When Sunday came, I snuck him into church
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and went totally berserk
Some thought it was heaven,
was among us
was plain to see
As the choir sang, I Surrender
All, the squirrel run up
Harv Dillon's coveralls
and said,
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In that sleeping little town of Pascagoula
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It was a fight for survival
others thought he had a demon
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-eater loose in his fruit and blooms
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He fell to his knees to plead
and beg
of his bridge's leg
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unobserved to the other side of the room
her garters
and crossed her thighs
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and said, Lord, have mercy on me.
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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
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In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
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It was a fight for survival,
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and shouting Hallelujah!
Well, seven deacons
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And 50 volunteered for missions
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in the Congo on the spot
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and even without an invitation
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and we all got re -baptized
back on the narrow way
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with a half -crazed Mississippi
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In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
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It was a fight for survival
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In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
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It was a fight for survival
fusing, shouting, hallelujah
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