Spider

	  		
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In the shadows, in the bushes,  
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in the space between the leaves 
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A spider in a thicket  
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crawled up on my knee 

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I put my gloves on, put my hat on,  
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and I ran from the trees 
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But that little black spider  
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came a-crawling after me 

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From the shadows in the bushes,  
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in the space between the leaves 
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A little black spider  
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came a-crawling home with me 

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It crawled across my window  
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as I lay me down to sleep 
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In the morning on my pillow  
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it waited patiently 

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And then came the ants,  
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the frogs and the snakes 
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Slithering and sliding  
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through my clean white sheets 

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Rustling from the bushes,  
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creeping from the leaves 
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Every awful creature  
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came a-crawling over me 

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I crushed them and killed them,  
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but they came all the more 
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So I ran in my nightshirt  
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out onto the lawn 

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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  
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tore me to pieces 

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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 

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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 

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And I swarmed and I gathered  
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under logs and leaves 
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I crawled and I slithered  
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under rotting trees 

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In the tangle of the bushes,  
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underneath the wet leaves 
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I am many and nothing  
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and I crawl up on your knee 

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In the tangle of the bushes,  
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underneath the wet leaves 
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I am many and nothing  
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and I crawl up on your knee 

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