Getting Ready To Get Down Lyrics - Sermon On The Rocks - 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 

Every little thing they ever hoped 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 

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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 

It's four long years studyin' the Bible 

Infidels, Jezebels, Salomes, and Delilahs 

Back off the bus in your own home town 

Say 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 

All 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, yes"s 

No "I can't wait"s "I gotta see you again"ses 

Just turn the other cheek, take no chances 

Jesus hates your high school dances 

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

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

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

Be a joy to the joyful, be 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 

Every little thing they ever hoped 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 

And I'm getting ready to get down 

Getting ready to get down 

Getting ready to get down 

I'm Getting ready to get down 

Getting ready to get down 

Getting ready to get down