Kenny Chesney Songs - The Big Revival Lyrics

Kenny Chesney - The Big Revival

Kenny Chesney - The Big Revival Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Big Revival
Released: 2014

The Big Revival Lyrics

Getting ready for The Big Revival
Getting ready for the big revival

Getting ready for the big revival
Everybody get in the van
There's a little church on eagle mountain
It's called the blood of the blessed land
If your faith ain't strong enough child
You might wind up dead
Praise the Lord and pass me a copperhead

Now Reverend Jones he struts some dances
While the guitar plays amazing grace
He testifies in tongues of fire
With tears of joy running down his face
He ain't sure, and we ain't sure
Exactly what he said
But praise the Lord and pass me a copperhead

You won't find many hypocrites
That will take the chance on getting bit
But a true believer can survive
Rattlesnakes and cyanide

Now I'll bring you home that deadly viper
Keep the holy spirit in your mind
You might lose your concentration
That serpent's surely bound to strike
Either way you won't forget
The first time that you said
Praise the Lord and pass me a copperhead
Praise the Lord and pass me a copperhead

Writer/s: Linde, Dennis
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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The first cut on Kenny Chesney's The Big Revival album is also the title track. The song depicts an old-time church service, complete with speaking in tongues and snake handling. "The philosophy behind putting 'The Big Revival' first was to set a tone," Chesney told Radio.com . "There's things about religion that I don't necessarily agree with or understand, but I'm a big believer in spirituality — I've seen songs change people, and that's spiritual."

"But 'The Big Revival' is really about picking yourself up off the bottom, reclaiming your soul, restarting," he continued. "That was everything I wanted to say to my audience - and you have to think about that, you have to think 'Okay, we took a year off, now what am I going to say to these people, who have been there for me for a long time?' And the idea of 'The Big Revival' was it."

The song was written by songwriter Dennis Linde, who is best known for penning the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love" and Dixie Chicks' 1999 murder ballad "Goodbye Earl." It was previously recorded by John Anderson in 2001 and Montgomery Gentry in 2008.