Getting Ready To Get Down-Josh Ritter
Mama got a look at you
and got a little worried
Papa got a look at you
and got a little worried
Pastor got a look and said,
"Ya'll had better hurry"
Send her off to a little
bible college in Missouri
And now you come back sayin'
you know a little bit about
Everything they ever seemed
to hope you'd never figure out
Eve ate the apple 'cause the apple was sweet
What kinda god would ever keep a girl
From getting what she needs?
And I'm getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
Now people cross the street
when you walk in their direction
Talk between their teeth throwin' epithets
And the doctor thinks a devil
musta got you by your senses
But to live the way you please
doesn't sound like possession
Four long years studyin' the Bible
Infidels, jezebels, salomes, and delilahs
Back off the bus in your own home town
Sayin' you didn't like me
then probably won't like me now
But I'm getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
The men of the country club
The ladies of the 'xilliary
Talkin' 'bout love
Like it's apple pie and libery
To really be a saint
You gotta really be a virgin
Dry as a page of the
King James Version
No ohh la la's, no oh yesses yesses
No I can't waits I got to see you againses
Turn your other cheek and take no chances
Jesus hates your high school dances
They said your soul needed savin'
so they sent you off to bible school
But you know a little more than
they were sure was in the golden rule
Be good to everybody,
be a strength to the weak
A joy to the joyful,
the laughter in the grief
And give your love freely
to whoever that you please
Don't let nobody tell you 'bout
who you oughta be
And when you get damned
in the popular opinion
It's just another damn of the damns
you're not giving
I'm getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
Mama got a look at you
and got a little worried
Papa got a look at you
and got a little worried
Pastor got a look and said,
"Ya'll had better hurry"
Send her off to a little
bible college in Missouri
And now you come back sayin'
you know a little bit about
Everything they ever seemed
to hope you'd never figure out
The Red Sea, the Dead Sea,
the Sermon on the Mount
If you wanna see a miracle watch me get down
Cause I'm getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
Cause I'm getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down
Getting ready to get down