Getting Ready To Get Down Acordes

	  INTRO: F, Bb, Dm, C x2 

F 
Mama got a look at you and got a little worried 
Bb 
Papa got a look at you and got a little worried 
    Am  
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 
Dm 
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 
                 Dm 
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 
        Dm 
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 
Dm 
Back off the bus in your own hometown 
        C 
Say you didn't like me then, you probably won't like me now 



    F 
And I'm 
                 Bb 
Getting ready to get down 
                 Dm 
Getting ready to get down 
                 C 
Getting ready to get down 


Bridge 

        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 

    Dm 
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 


Instrumental BREAK: F, Bb, Dm, C x2 


          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 
    Dm 
"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 
    Dm 
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 
Getting ready to get down 
                 Dm 
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 
    Am  
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 
    Dm 
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 
                 Dm 
Getting ready to get down 
                 C 
Getting ready to get down (2x)