English transcript

Are you ready?

You ready? You like it? You sure?

Okay. On her way

to work one morning, down the path

along the lake, a tender-hearted woman

saw a poor,

half-frozen snake. His pretty-colored skin

had been all frosted with the dew. "Oh well," she cried, "I'll take you in

and I'll take care of you."

"Take me in, oh tender woman, take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in,

oh tender woman,"

sighed the broken snake. She wrapped him up all cozy

in a curvature

of silk. Then laid him by the fireside

with some honey

and some milk. Now she hurried home

from work that night, as soon as she arrived,

she found that pretty snake

she'd taken in

had been revived. "Take me in, oh tender woman, take me in, for heaven's sake.

Take me in, oh tender woman,"

sighed the broken snake.

Now she clutched him to her bosom,

"You're so beautiful," she cried.

"But if I hadn't brought you in by now, you certainly

would have died." Now she stroked his pretty skin

and then she kissed

and held him tight. But instead of saying thank you,

that snake gave her

a vicious bite. "Take me in, oh tender woman,

take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in, oh tender woman,"

sighed the vicious snake. "I saved you, I saved you, I saved you,"

cried that woman. "And you've bit me, heavens why? You know your bite

is poisonous

and now I'm going to die." "Oh shut up,

silly woman," said the reptile with a grin.

"You knew damn well I was a snake

before you took me

in."