Lyr Req: Spiders and Snakes (Jim Stafford)

Subject: I don't like Spiders or Snakes
From: angel
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 10:06 AM

Does anyone have the ACCURATE lyrics to "I don't like Spiders or Snakes" by Jim Stafford?

Thanks, Angle

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't like Spiders or Snakes
From: Peg
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 10:13 AM

I believe is is "Spiders and Snakes" as opposed to "or"... I remember heused to sing this on his short-lived Tv variety show...I used to really like him when i was a kid.

peg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't like Spiders or Snakes
From:
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 10:59 AM

I don't have them, or the recording. However a search on the internet shows a radio site which has

http://comedyradio.net/act/stafford/jim-spiders.snakes.rpmwhat appears to be the recording itself.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't like Spiders or Snakes
From:
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 11:02 AM

Actually, it seems to lead to ANOTHER site....

rtsp://216.65.124.98:554/act/stafford/jim-spiders.snakes.rm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't like Spiders or Snakes
From:
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 11:04 AM

And that in turn says not found! Oh well.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't like Spiders or Snakes
From: angel
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 12:22 PM

I'm having a terrible time finding them and I don't understand why. It was a cute song. If I find the lyrics I will post them.

Thanks, Angel

Subject: Lyr Add: SPIDERS AND SNAKES (Jim Stafford)
From: angel
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 02:13 PM

Found it everyone. Thanks for all your help.


SPIDERS & SNAKES
Words and music by David Bellamy & Jim Stafford.
As recorded by Jim Stafford on "Jim Stafford," 1974.

I remember when Mary Lou
Said, "You want to walk me home from school?"
Well, I said, "Yes, I do!"
She said, "I don't have to go right home,
And I'm the kind that likes to be alone
Some, if you would." I said, "Me, too!"

And so we took a stroll,
Wound up down by the swimmin' hole
And she said, "Do what you want to do."
I got silly and found a frog
In the water by a hollow log
And I shook it at her and I said, "This frog's for you!"

She said, "I don't like spiders and snakes,
And that ain't what it takes
To love me, you fool, you fool!
I don't like spiders and snakes,
And that ain't what it takes
To love me like I want to be loved by you."

Well, I think of that girl from time to time.
I call her up when I got a dime.
I say, "Hello, baby!"
She says, "Ain't you cool!"
I say, "Do you remember when?
And would you like to get together again?"
She says, "I'll see you after school."

I was shy and so for a while
Most of my love was touch and smile
Till she said, "Come on over here."
I was nervous as you might guess,
Still lookin' for somethin' to slip down her dress,
And she said, "Let's make it perfectly clear."

She said, "I don't like spiders and snakes,
And that ain't what it takes
To love me, you fool, you fool!
I don't like spiders and snakes,
And that ain't what it takes
To love me like I want to be loved by you."

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Also recorded by—
Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty on "Country Partners," 1974; and "The Definitive Collection," 2005.
The Bellamy Brothers on "Sons of the Sun," 1980.