Spiders and snakes (1973)    (video)    (midi)

 

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1. I remember when Mary Lou said,

   

    "You wanna walk me home from school?"

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    Well, I said, "Yes, I do."

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    She said, "I don't have to go right home,

 

    and I would kinda like to be alone some,

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    if you would," I said, "Me, too."

 

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    And so we took a stroll, wound up down by the swimmin' hole,

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    and she said, "Do what you want to do".

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    I got silly and I found a frog, in the water by a hollow log,

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    and I shook it at her and I said, "This frog's for you!"

 

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She said,          "I don't like spiders and snakes,

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and that ain't what it takes to love me, you fool, you fool.

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    I don't like spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes to love me,

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like I want to be loved by you."

 

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2. Well, I think of that girl from time to time,

 

    I call her up when I got a dime,

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    I say, "Hello, baby!" She says, "Ain't you cool."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    I say,        "Do you remember when ?

 

    And would you like to get together again ?”

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    She says, "I'll see you after school."

 

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    I was shy and so for a while, most of my love was touch and smile,

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    til she said, "Come on over here."

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    I was nervous as you might guess,

 

    still looking for somethin' to slip down her dress,

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    and she said, "Let's make it perfectly clear !"

 

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She said,          "I don't like spiders and snakes,

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and that ain't what it takes to love me, you fool, you fool.

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    I don't like spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes to love me,

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like I want to be loved by you."

 

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    (Jim Stafford)