DESCRIPTION:
A new version of Rat Snake Blues with better video. This version is for the Sprockets Music Video Festival. This video details the life history characteristics of the black rat snake of the Georgia Piedmont Elaphe obsoleta and was written and played for my FANR/ECOL/GEOG 1200 class. The song was played on a 1920 Martin 1K soprano ukulele. Lyrics and chords follow below

RAT SNAKE BLUES


I'm just a six foot rat snake
Climbing up a red oak tree
Minding my own business
Why don't you let me be


I'm looking for some birdies
They make the nicest treats
I like em when they're in the nest
I can hear them go cheep cheep


If some damn hawk does see me
A scaling that coarse trunk
He'll grab me with his talons
My head's gone with one chomp


Farewell my twenty babies
Selection takes its toll
Mice and rats are safer prey
I squeeze em, scarf em whole


But if that red-tail misses
I'll plop down on the ground
Take up my kinky dead look
Let musk flow all around


So if I'm in the Piedmont
I'm mainly dusky black
But if I'm in the coastal plain
Yellow stripes run down my back


You might find me in winter
Coiled on your basement floor
It's warm in here just leave me be
Less mousies than before


Oh I'm just a big ole rat snake
I roam these Georgia woods
Just let me be or set me free
No pests cuz I do good


Oh yes I do such good