Another example of the best-forgotten doggerel that fiddlers use so that they can recall the many similar tunes in their repertoire.

Seriously, there are people who think mostly in words, and there are people who think mostly in pictures. To people who think in pictures, this is a most unpleasant image. Sink it.

I have a friend who was bitten by a rattlesnake at the age of four. She cannot abide even a picture of a snake, doesn't go in her yard in the summer. She (and her friends and family) would fail completely to appreciate the sadistic humor in this song.