Getting Ready To Get Down

Song Getting Ready To Get Down
Artist Josh Ritter
Album Sermon on the Rocks

Lyrics

[00:08.94] Mama got a look at you and got a little worried
[00:20.17] Papa got a look at you and got a little worried
[00:22.40] Pastor got a look and said, ya'll had better hurry
[00:24.67] Send her off to a little bible college in Missouri
[00:26.95] And now you come back sayin' you know a little bit about
[00:29.16] Every little thing they ever hoped you'd never figure out
[00:31.52] Eve ate the apple 'cause the apple was sweet
[00:33.65] What kinda God would ever keep a girl from getting what she needs
[00:35.92] And I'm getting ready to get down
[00:39.74] Getting ready to get down
[00:42.16] Getting ready to get down
[00:44.40] Now people cross the street when you walk in their direction
[00:47.93] Talk between their teeth throwin' epithets
[00:49.50] And the doctor thinks a devil musta got you by your senses
[00:51.71] But to live the way you please doesn't sound like possession
[00:54.00] It's four long years studyin' the Bible
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[00:58.42] Back off the bus in your own home town
[01:00.46] Say you didn't like me then probably won't like me now
[01:03.05] But I'm getting ready to get down
[01:06.60] Getting ready to get down
[01:09.03] Getting ready to get down
[01:11.65] All the men of the country club, the ladies of the 'xilliary
[01:14.02] Talkin' 'bout love like it's apple pie and libery
[01:16.43] To really be a saint, you gotta really be a virgin
[01:18.54] Dry as a page of the King James Version
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[01:23.04] No "I can't wait"s "I gotta see you again"ses
[01:25.41] Just turn the other cheek, take no chances
[01:27.55] Jesus hates your high school dances
[01:51.78] Said your soul needed saving, so they sent you off to Bible school
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[01:55.71] "Be good to everybody, be a strength to the weak
[01:57.70] Be a joy to the joyful, be the laughter in the grief"
[02:00.01] And give your love freely to whoever that you please
[02:02.24] Don't let nobody tell you 'bout who you oughta be
[02:04.47] And when you get damned in the popular opinion
[02:06.62] It's just another damn of the damns you're not giving
[02:09.08] I'm getting ready to get down
[02:12.71] Getting ready to get down
[02:15.06] Getting ready to get down
[02:17.97] Mama got a look at you and got a little worried
[02:20.10] Papa got a look at you and got a little worried
[02:22.39] Pastor got a look and said, ya'll had better hurry
[02:24.57] Send her off to a little bible college in Missouri
[02:26.85] And now you come back sayin' you know a little bit about
[02:29.13] Every little thing they ever hoped you'd never figure out
[02:31.40] The Red Sea, the Dead Sea, the Sermon on the Mount
[02:33.53] If you wanna see a miracle watch me get down
[02:35.81] And I'm getting ready to get down
[02:39.83] Getting ready to get down
[02:42.06] Getting ready to get down
[02:45.04] I'm Getting ready to get down
[02:48.60] Getting ready to get down
[02:50.71] Getting ready to get down
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