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Snake Dance

Lyrics

Snake Dance

Intro

||: Ooh ooh ooh ooh :|| x 3
aah aah

Verse 1

Was it a hundred years ago?
Or maybe just last night?
The throb of drums and dancing naked feet
In the sultry night
Was it a dream or did she really call my name?
On magnolia scented breeze.
My momma said stay away
From that Voodoo child
She’ll only bring you to your knees, in the

Chorus

Snake Dance
Snake Dance - Gliding through the trees
Call our names. We are there
In the Snake Dance
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh )
I don’t know when or where I am!

Verse 2

You have eyes, you have eyes!
But do you see?
As with your fingers you trace.
The ripened fruit
Of ev-ve-ry desire
Inviting your embrace in the

Chorus

Snake Dance
Snake Dance Gliding through the trees
Wear plain clothes when you call our names.
In the Snake Dance
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh )
Your hell means nothing to me
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh )
Your heaven cannot move me
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh )
Though you can never, ever touch me
(aah aah)
For her, I’d do it all again!

Verse 3

You’ll swear you’re dreaming when you,
Hear me call your name
On magnolia scented breeze.
Your dreams (will) be haunted ‘till you
Dare a dance with me
To taste the honey you must,
face the bee in the

Chorus

Snake Dance
Snake Dance Gliding through the trees
Call our names. We are there
In the Snake Dance

Repeat Chorus

Technical Information:

Ridiculously nit-picky details:

Drums: Congas - Jeff Pierce, Dumbek - David Pierce, recorded on my back porch using a Zoom H2
Guitar: 1982 Taylor 555, with LR Baggs iBEAM underbridge transduce - direct in to mixing board.
Vocals: David Pierce, close Mic'd with Sure SM 58 and passed to dbx 266XL Compressor/Gate (to avoid clipping)
Multitracking, editing, mixing, efx: Pro Tools Free (Mac OS 9.1)
mp3 encoding: iTunes (Mac OS X)

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