I'd take a trip every summer down to Mississippi
to visit my granny and her
I'd run barefooted all day long,
climbing trees free as a song.
One day, I happened to catch
Well, I stuffed him down in
When Sunday came, I snuck him into church
Showin' him to my good buddy Hugh
When that squirrel got loose
Well, what happened next is hard to tell
Some thought it was heaven,
others thought it was hell
But the fact that somethin'
As the choir sang, I Surrender
And Harv leaped to his feet
Something's got a hold on me!
The day the squirrel went berserk
in the first self -righteous church
In that sleeping little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival
that broke out in revival
They were jumping, fusing,
Well, Harv hit the aisles dan
Some thought he had religion,
others thought he had a demon
And Harv thought he had a weed
-eater loose in his fruit and blooms
He fell to his knees to plead
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 watching all the commotion
But you should have seen the
when that squirrel jumped
and she jumped to her feet
and said, Lord, have mercy on me.
As the squirrel made laps inside her dress,
that would make a sailor blush with shame.
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,
but then look out in revival
And 50 volunteered for missions
and even without an invitation
there were at least 500 rededications
and we all got re -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 all the miracles
God has wrought in this old world
but the one I'll remember
is how he put that church
with a half -crazed Mississippi
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
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
fusing, shouting, hallelujah
