I ain't played for nobody in years I wanted me some kids, a whole mess of them. But for Rose, my wife, kids is for another time.
Then one spring, I seened a change in her Her breasts started swelling up Couple of mornings, hear her in the bathroom throwing up I done seen it in other women before, so I knew.
Rose said she had to go to Jackson, visit her folks, and she ain't wanted me to go, so I stayed here.
You know how they talk about a woman having that glow? She didn't have it no more. She done cut it out. Got rid of it.
That voice in my head, every time I think it's gone, it comes howling back.
Calls me when I'm ailing, when I can't find my way home. Lost in the pines I calls it the Black Snake Moan.
Black snake all in my room Black snake all in my room Some pretty mamma Better get this black snake soon