Josh Ritter - Getting Ready To Get Down Chords

G C/G G D throughout except for Em C/G G D in the bridge.

G
Mama got a look at you and got a little worried
C/G
Papa got a look at you and got a little worried
    G 
The pastor got a look and said, y'all had better hurry
         D
Send her off to a little bible college in Missouri

    G
And now you come back, saying you know a little bit about
C/G
Every little thing they ever hoped you'd never figure out
G
Eve ate the apple 'cause the apple was sweet
           D
What kinda' god would ever keep a girl from getting what she needs?


    G
And I'm
                 C/G
Getting ready to get down
                 G
Getting ready to get down
                 D
Getting ready to get down

     G
Now, people cross the street when you walk in their direction
C/G
Talk between their teeth throwin' epithets
        G
And the doctor thinks the devil must've got you by your senses
       D
But to live the way you please doesn't sound like possession

     G
It's four long years studying the bible
C/G
Infidels, Jezebels, Salomes and Delilahs
G
Back off the bus in your own hometown
        D
Say you didn't like me then you probably won't like me now

    G
And I'm
                 C/G
Getting ready to get down
                 G
Getting ready to get down
                 D
Getting ready to get down

        Em
All the men of the country club, the ladies of 'xiliary
C/G
Talk about love like its apple pie and liberty
   G
To really be a saint, you gotta really be a virgin
D
Dry as a page of the king james version

    Em
No ooh la-las, no oh, hell yeses
    C/G
No I can't waits I gotta see you againses
   G
Turn the other cheek, take no chances
D
Jesus hates your high school dances


G  C G D    x2

          G
Said your soul needed savin' so they sent you off to bible school
    C/G
You learned a little more than they had heard was in the golden rule
    G
Be good to everybody, be a strength to the weak
     D
Be a joy to the joyful, be the laughter in the grief

    G
And give your love freely to whoever that you please
      C/G  
Don't let nobody tell you 'bout the who you ought to be
    G
And when you get damned in the popular opinion
     D
It's just another damn of the damns you're not giving


    G
And I'm
                 C/G
Getting ready to get down
                 G
Getting ready to get down
                 D
Getting ready to get down

G
Mama got a look at you and got a little worried
C
Papa got a look at you and got a little worried
    G 
The pastor got a look and said, y'all had better hurry
         D
Send her off to a little bible college in Missouri

    G
And now, you come back, saying you know a little bit about
C
Every little thing they ever hoped you'd never figure out
    G
The Red Sea, the Dead Sea, the Sermon on the Mount
       D
If you wanna' see a miracle, watch me get down

    
    G
And I'm
                 C/G
Getting ready to get down
                 G
Getting ready to get down
                 D
Getting ready to get down

    Em
I    am
                 C/G
Getting ready to get down
                 G
Getting ready to get down
                 D
Getting ready to get down

G C/G C D G