There were tambourines and moans and wails
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Wrappin' the snake 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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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 a 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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There was a woman and a rope and a kicked over chair
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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 it's the persecuted ones that will find the light
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Whoa no, so long
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Copperheads and the sacreed songs
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The book of Mark couldn't be wrong
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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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They're locking 'em up, 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 works all the time, son
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Whoa no, whoa no
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Say you got the answer, well how do you know?
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It works for me, that's all I know
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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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Preacher In The Ring (Part Two)
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| Bruce Hornsby |
