well, where i grew up in talapusa    when summertime came we all use'ta   go to a place called vacation bible school      we'd look up verses in the bible   make paper cut outs of the twelve disciples   and memorize the ten commandments and the golden rule      i remember once when my class made   a big ol' batch of lemonade    to be used by a student teacher at the sunday sermon      yeah we put in lemons, and sugar and water   and even though i knew i shouldn't ought'er   i put in some moonshine i got from my uncle herman      now that sunday dawned real hot and dusty   and to say the lease we were all real thirsty   and that seminary started hittin' that lemonade    and kept it well in reach      then to the best of my recollection    before the deacons were halfway through the collection   he stood up and drank from the pitcher and began to preach Ho!      oh the things we used to do   in vacation bible schoo'   when i was just a barefoot boy in dixie   if my mama had only known   even a half of what went on    she'd cut a switch off of a hickory   she'd a whipped me      well he told that samson didn't take no sass   and whipped the philistines with the jaw bone of an ass   but to tell the truth, he got all that just a little mixed up      i can't tell you exactly what he said   but the minute he said it every face went red   but he just paused, and kinda staggered and then he hiccuped      he gave botanical names for mideast flora   told ALL about sodom and gomorrah   and though his speech was slurred   it was very graphic      he used words i'd never heard back then   and even now i only hear 'em when   i'm stuck in a new york cab    in five o clock traffic      well the sermon ended and he didn't rest   he went right into the gettysburg address   and then a stirring rendition of casey at the bat      he did impressions of garbo and gary cooper   and i tell ya friends, i thought it was super   'cause for props he grabbed the organ players wig and a deacon's hat      oh the things we used to do   in vacation bible schoo'   when i was just a barefoot boy in dixie   if my mama had only known   even a half of what went on    she'd cut a switch off of a hickory   she'd a whipped me      well we never had heard any preachin' like that   and we never invited that young man back   but to tell the truth, i thought it was a pitty      but i heard he went up preachin' that day   and he gave up cussin' and lemonade   and went to selling aluminum siding in yazoo city      oh the things we used to do   in vacation bible schoo'   when i was just a barefoot boy in dixie   if my mama had only known   even a half of what went on    she'd cut a switch off of a hickory   she'd a whipped me