Spider
From the album Wilderness
[INTRO]
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[VERSE 1]
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In the shadows, in the bushes,
C G
in the space between the leaves
C G
A spider in a thicket
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crawled up on my knee
G
I put my gloves on, put my hat on,
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and I ran from the trees
C G
But that little black spider
D G
came a-crawling after me
[CHORUS]
C G
From the shadows in the bushes,
C G
in the space between the leaves
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A little black spider
D G
came a-crawling home with me
[VERSE 2]
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It crawled across my window
C G
as I lay me down to sleep
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In the morning on my pillow
D G
it waited patiently
G
And then came the ants,
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the frogs and the snakes
C G
Slithering and sliding
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through my clean white sheets
[CHORUS]
C G
Rustling from the bushes,
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creeping from the leaves
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Every awful creature
D G
came a-crawling over me
[INTERLUDE]
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[VERSE 3]
G
I crushed them and killed them,
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but they came all the more
C G
So I ran in my nightshirt
D G
out onto the lawn
G
But I tripped upon a tree root
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and they swarmed from the weeds
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A million little teeth
D G
tore me to pieces
[CHORUS]
C G
In the shadows of the thicket
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rain poured through the leaves
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And I was scattered in the mud
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beneath the dripping trees
[VERSE 4]
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But from here and from there,
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from every direction
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Little voices sang
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under twigs and mosses
G
And I swarmed and I gathered
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under logs and leaves
C G
I crawled and I slithered
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under rotting trees
[CHORUS]
C G
In the tangle of the bushes,
C G
underneath the wet leaves
C G
I am many and nothing
D G
and I crawl up on your knee
[OUTRO]
C G
In the tangle of the bushes,
C G
underneath the wet leaves
C G
I am many and nothing
D G
and I crawl up on your knee
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