Getting Ready to Get Down

[Verse 1]

Mama got a look at you and got a little worried

Papa got a look at you and got a little worried

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

Send her off to a little Bible college in Missouri"

[Verse 2]

And now you come back, saying 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?

[Chorus]

And I'm

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

[Verse 3]

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

Talk between their teeth and throwin' epithets

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

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

[Verse 4]

It's four long years studying the Bible

Infidels, Jezebels, Salomes and Delilahs

Back off the bus in your own hometown

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

[Chorus]

But I'm

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

[Bridge]

All the men of the country club, the Ladies in the 'xiliary

Talk about love like it's apple pie and liberty

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

Dry as a page of the King James version

No "ooh la-la's," no "oh, hell yeses"

No "I can't wait's, I gotta see you againses"

Just turn the other cheek, take no chances

Jesus hates your high school dances

[Verse 5]

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

[Verse 6]

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

[Chorus]

And I'm

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

[Verse 1]

Mama got a look at you and got a little worried

Papa got a look at you and got a little worried

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

Send her off to a little Bible college in Missouri"

[Verse 7]

And now, you come back, saying 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

[Chorus]

And I'm

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

Ah, I, I'm

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down

Getting ready to get down