THE MISSISSIPPI SQUIRREL REVIVAL
“Mississippi Squirrel Revival” is a song by American country music singer Ray Stevens. It is a single from his 1984 album He Thinks He’s Ray Stevens. (More from Wikipedia)
One of the routines by Wendy Bagwell and the Sunliters, “Three German Police Seeing-Eye Dogs and One Yellow Cat” was a Top 20 hit in 1984. Ray Stevens supposedly adapted this monologue for his novelty song, “The Mississippi Squirrel Revival”; the lyrics mention a city just down the road from where I live: “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!’”
(November 2014)
