Josh Ritter – Getting Ready To Get Down (Guitar)

F
Mama got a look at you and got a little worried

Bb
Papa got a look at you and got a little worried

    F 
The pastor got a look and said, "Y'all had better hurry"

         C
Send her off to a little Bible college in Missouri

    F
And now you come back, saying you know a little bit about

Bb
Every little thing they ever hoped you'd never figure out

F
Eve ate the apple cause the apple was sweet

           C
What kinda God would ever keep a girl from getting what she needs?

    F
And I'm

                 Bb
Getting ready to get down

                 F
Getting ready to get down

                 C
Getting ready to get down

     F
Now, people cross the street when you walk in their direction

Bb
Talk between their teeth and throwin' epithets

        F
And the doctor thinks the devil must've got you by your senses

       C
But to live the way you please doesn't sound like possession

     F
It's four long years studying the Bible

Bb
Infidels, Jezebels, Salomes and Delilahs

F
Back off the bus in your own hometown

        C
Say you didn't like me then, you probably won't like me now

    F
But I'm

                 Bb
Getting ready to get down

                 F
Getting ready to get down

                 C
Getting ready to get down

        Dm
All the men of the country club, the Ladies of 'Xiliary

Bb
Talk about love like it's apple pie and liberty

   F
To really be a saint, you gotta really be a virgin

C
Dry as a page of the King James version

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No "ooh la-las," no "oh, hell yeses"

    Bb
No "I can't wait 'til I gotta see you agains's"

     F
Just turn the other cheek, take no chances

C
Jesus hates your high school dances

          F
Said your soul needed saving, so they sent you off to Bible school

    Bb
You learned a little more than they had heard was in the Golden Rule

    F
"Be good to everybody, be a strength to the weak

     C
Be a joy to the joyful, be the laughter in the grief"

    F
And give your love freely to whoever that you please

      Bb   
Don't let nobody tell you 'bout to who you oughta be

    F
And when you get damned in the popular opinion

     C
It's just another damn of the damns you're not giving

    F
And I'm

                     Bb
I'm gettin' ready to get down

                 F
Getting ready to get down

                 C
Getting ready to get down

F
Mama got a look at you and got a little worried

Bb
Papa got a look at you and got a little worried

    F 
The pastor got a look and said, "Y'all had better hurry"

         C
Send her off to a little Bible college in Missouri

    F
And now, you come back, saying you know a little bit about

Bb
Every little thing they ever hoped you'd never figure out

    F
The Red Sea, The Dead Sea, the Sermon on the Mount

       C
If you wanna see a miracle, watch me GET DOWN!

    F
And I'm

                 Bb
Getting ready to get down

                 F
Getting ready to get down

                 C
Getting ready to get down

  Dm
I...

                     Bb
I'm gettin' ready to get down

                 F
Getting ready to get down

                 C
Getting ready to get down