Snail Pickin' Time
It's snail pickin time in California
Come all ye escargot I've got to warn ya
If you go out tonight
Watch out for my flash light
Gonna put you in a jar
Set you on the bar
Paint another notch
On the bottom of my bottle of beer
Now you might think it's cruel the way I treat you
But I might cook you up and eat you
If you burglarize my beans
There's gonna be some mighty heavy scenes
Gonna throw you on the ground
My feet'll start to pound
And I'll paint another notch
On the bottom of my combat boots
Well, it's moth whackin' time in old Nashua.
Come all ye cabbage moths I'm gonna smash you-a
If you do your cabbage crimes
Come around metamorphis time
You may think you're butterflies
But you better realize
You're just another notch
On the handle of my tennis racket
copyright 1986 Herb Moore, Melodius-Sync
Snail Pickin' Time
This is another example of a humorous attempt to examine valid, if somewhat unorthodox, organic gardening methods.
It also reveals a bit of 'the dark side' of organic gardening.
In her book "The Organic Gardener," Catherine Osgood Foster suggests that one method for dealing with cabbage moths is to go out in your garden when the cabbage worms become moths and whack them with a tennis racket. Hence the last verse of this song.
- herb
Credits:
Ed Cirimele - mandolin
Leonard Hanitchak - string bass, voice
Herb Moore - guitar, voice, percussion
Ted Brooks - engineer
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