Well me and Doris went on vacation 
We decided we needed more than recreation 
So we enrolled in a Bible camp retreat. 

I got the directions and we took off 
It only took six hours to get completely lost 
Way back up in the mountains of east Tennessee. 

Well it was getting real dark 
And I was starting to fret. 
Doris said look yonder bet that's it. 
She pointed to the lights 
To this little church way back in the brush.

An old man met us, I said just two 
He escorted us down 
to the very first pew 
I said Doris I don't think this is the right place 
She just said hush. 

Well they preached a sermon and sang a song 
Then they preached some more 
And went on and on. 
Nearly wore me out 
I'd had about all I could take.

Then they pulled down the shades 
Things quitted down. 
This guy next to me punched me 
Said here past this down 
I turned to look and son of a gun 
He handed me a snake. 

Oh the night that me and Doris 
Went running through the forest 
Way back up in the hills of Tennessee.

Yeah we started making tracks 
When they broke out that diamond back 
It scared the devil out of poor old Doris and me .

He said take it man don't you believe 
I said I believe all right I believe I'll leave. 
And I reached for Doris but she done fainted away 
White as a sheet. 

Now I couldn't pick her up 
And I couldn't find the door 
And them rattlers were crawling 
All around the floor.

And Friend that's when the spirit hit my feet 
I started running down the aisles 
And bouncing off the walls 
Like somebody teed off a new golf ball 
In a tiled bathroom 
Friends I'll tell you I was moving on. 

I'd run past Doris every minute or two 
Trying to shake her awake her but it wasn't no use 
For a while there I thought 
The Lord had called the poor thing home.

Then somebody dropped a big one in her lap 
Doris come too and something in her snapped 
She grabbed that thing by the tail 
And Commenced swinging it around her head 

Then she gave it a crack like LashLaRue 
The head came off and sailed across the room 
Then she did a tap dance 
On the rest of them suckers till they was all dead.

Well I grabbed her by the hand 
And we headed for the car 
When she hollered to the preacher,
I don't know who you are 
Or where you came from 
Or how you ever learn how to preach.

But let me tell you something 
You old raggedy cat 
You don't know nothing 
About running a Bible Camp 
And me and my husband 
Are on our way to Daytona Beach. 

Oh the night that me and Doris 
Went running through the forest 
Way back up in the hills of Tennessee. 

Yeah we started making tracks 
When they broke out that diamond back 
It scared the devil out of poor old Doris and me.