The Snake Chords by Al Wilson

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_ _ _ [Dm] On her way to work one morning down the path alongside the lake, a tender-hearted woman
[A] saw a poor half-frozen snake.
His [Dm] pretty colored skin had been all frosted with dew.
Well, she cried, I'll take you in and I'll take [Dm] care of you.
Take me in, oh tender woman, take me in for heaven's sake, take me in, tender woman.
[A] _ Sad [Dm] to sleep.
She wrapped him up all cozy in a cover of the jar of silk, and then laid him by the
fireside with [A] some honey and some milk.
[Dm] She hurried home from work that night as soon as she arrived.
She found that pretty snake she'd taken [A] in had been [Dm] revived.
Take me in, oh tender woman, take me in for heaven's sake, take me in, tender woman.
[A] _ [Dm] Sad to sleep. _
_ [Ebm] _ _ Now she clutched him to a bosom, you're so beautiful, she cried.
But if I hadn't brought you [Bb] in, by now you might have died.
Now she stroked his pretty skin again and then kissed him and held him tight.
But instead of saying thanks, that [Bb] snake gave her a vicious [Ebm] bite.
Take me in, oh tender woman, take me in for heaven's sake, take me in, tender woman.
_ [Ebm] Sad to sleep. _ _
[Em] _ _ _ I saved you, cried that woman, and you bit me even, why?
And you know your bite is poisonous [B] and now I'm gonna die.
[Em] Oh shut up, silly woman, say that I ripped all of my breath.
Now you knew doing away all I was a [A] snake [B] before you brought me [E] in.
Please take [Em] me in, oh tender woman, take me in for heaven's sake, take me in, tender [D] woman.
[B] _ [Em] Sad to sleep.
[B] _ [Em] Sad to sleep.
[B] _ [Em] Take me in, [B] tender woman, _
[E] _ [Bm] take me in.
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