Boys and girls take warning, if you go near the lake
Keep your eyes wide open, and look out for sneaky snake
Now maybe you won't see him, maybe you won't hear
But he'll sneak up behind you, and drink all your root beer
And then sneaky snake goes dancin, wigglin and a-hissin
Sneaky snake goes dancin, gigglin and a-kissin
I don't like old sneaky snake; he laughs too much you see
When he goes wigglin through the grass, it tickles his underneath
Well, sneaky snake drinks root beer, and he just makes me sick
When he is not dancin, he looks just like a stick
Now, he doesn't have any arms or legs, you cannot see his ears
And while we are not lookin, he's stealin all of our beer
And then sneaky snake goes dancin, wigglin and a-hissin
Sneaky snake goes dancin, gigglin and a-kissin
I don't like old sneaky snake; he laughs too much you see
When he goes wigglin through the grass, it tickles his underneath
words by Tom T. Hall
Over the Easter holiday, Dad taught GBK the lyrics to this song titled Sneaky Snake.
After a few days of practice she could sing the whole thing by herself. Of course she changed a few of the words up a bit to fit her personal opinion of things.
For instance, she says that she *does* like Sneaky Snake because she really likes to laugh. And y'all know my addiction to Root Beer, particularly Barq's Root Beer- so she sings that he is stealing Mama's root beer!
Well, yesterday afternoon as I was headed to the back yard to mow a tiny little patch of grass I noticed movement in the grass. It was sneaky snake headed to the house looking for my root beer! I screamed for RD to hurry! run! quick! He yelled back that he couldn't, he was on the phone. I screamed back- I don't care! There is a snake in the back yard! He quickly hung up and raced over... grabbed the hoe that was 82 cm from the snake and asked (are y'all ready for this?) "Should I kill it?"
I almost lost it y'all. OF COURSE you kill it! I mean, what are the other options here? I see it again and have a heart attack. I die in my sleep while having a nightmare about that thing getting in my house? I have a stroke watching it slither towards GBK's playground? No- you kill the dang thing!
He said- but it's a good snake! (I could tell he really wanted to kill it though, he is not a snake lover.)
Kill it, I said. There is no such thing as a good snake! Even a dead snake is not a good snake because the sight of it makes me nearly pee my pants!
So he chopped his head (I wanted him to chop it in half as well) and we watched it continue slithering about the yard. I spent a few minutes looking for good batteries for my camera and then finally took pictures just before he was thrown in the pond for the turtles to gnaw on.
How the heck do you explain to a 3 yr old that you killed sneaky snake?
5 comments:
Oh GAH! This post gave the the heebs. It brought back too many memories of when I was 7 months pregnant and almost STEPPED on a RATTLESNAKE IN OUR HOUSE.
I almost went into labor. I don't think there has ever been a pregnant woman to move as fast as I did. I wanted to move, right then and there. I didn't sleep for a week.
Did Madi SEE him kill the snake? If she didn't I wouldn't tell her. Isabella has a toy snake (nake! nake!) that she carries around and makes hiss at me. I'm so afraid she is going to find a real one and try to do the same.
Wherest there is water, thoust be a snake, albeit Sneaky Snake. I remember when I was a child, my daddy was mowing the lawn and he ran over a grass snake (not sure if that is a good/bad snake, but to me ALL SNAKES ARE BAD. We all freaked out.
Even God condemned Saten to snakehood. Remember Genesis and the Garden of Eden?? But your snake is especially bad since EVERYONE knows he was headed for YOUR Barq's.....or was he headed for Wes's BEER?? Either way, your plan was a good plan - KILL THE SNAKE.
Don't tell GBK. It will give her nightmares.
LYG, Debi
Oh, I love that song! I even sang along as I read your post. My dad would play Tom T. Hall's, "I Care" for me when I was having a bad day as a child.
As for your snake issues, I must say I have sympathy for the snake. Sorry. I'm one of those weird women who doesn't mind spiders, snakes or rats. My son and his dog found a garter snake just the other day. I cautioned him not to pick it up or touch it, but we all three sat and watched it for a while.
Oh Lord. Why did I click over here before going to bed? Now I'm going to have horrible snake NIGHTMARES. Just the other day I was reminding Mom about the time I - lucky me! - found a snake slithering across the front porch. And it was NOT a good snake. Thank goodness Daddy killed it, quick! I told her we'll have to do a snake check when baby T starts crawling...
Madi was too funny telling us about the snake at lunch. Very involved story!
My father always told me that there were only two things in this world her was scare of: "snakes and all sticks that look like snakes".
So the killing was justified in the eyes of many.
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