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There were tambourines and moans and wails |
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Wrappin' the snakes on the healing trail |
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But a child passed, it was the devil and the snake |
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And the devil prevailed |
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Big deep trouble for a young child gone |
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Maybe the book and the verse was all wrong |
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Keep your eyes closed, your lips sealed tight, |
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Keep your mind right |
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Whoa no, whoa no |
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Good Lord lift this heavy load |
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Maybe I'm going down a wrong road, |
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Well oh no, no, no |
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Hallelujah and praise the man |
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Upstairs with the long hand |
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Wrap the snake and the angels sing |
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Take your ride with the preacher in the ring |
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Lawmen went to the house on the hill |
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Found the wife and the wind so still |
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A woman and a rope and a kicked-over chair and a beam too high |
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Thrown out of town got to find a new site |
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Someone said it's like the Israelites |
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They say the persecuted ones gonna find the light |
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Whoa no, so long |
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Copperheads and sacred songs |
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The book of Mark |
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well it couldn't be wrong |
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Well, oh no, no, no |
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Hallelujah and praise the man |
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Upstairs with the long hand |
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Wrap the snake and watch 'em all sting |
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As they go ten rounds with the preacher in the ring |
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Say they're lockin' 'em up, |
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They've got 'em on the run |
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Might as well sue all the doctors when they don't get it done |
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Not everything everybody does, |
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Works all the time, son |
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Whoa no, whoa no |
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Say you got the answers well how do you know? |
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It works for me that's all I know |
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Well, oh no, no, no |
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Hallelujah and praise the man |
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Upstairs with the long hand |
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Wrap the snake and watch 'em all sting |
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As they go ten rounds with the preacher in the ring |
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Wrap the snake and the angels sing |
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Take your ride with the preacher in the ring |