On her way to work one morning
Down the path along side the lake
A tender hearted woman saw a poor half frozen snake
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
“Poor thing,” she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you”
“Take me in tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk
And laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk
She hurried home from work that night and soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she’d taken to had been revived
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried
“But if I hadn’t brought you in by now you might have died”
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight
Instead of saying thanks, the snake gave her a vicious bite
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
“I saved you,” cried the woman
“And you’ve bitten me, but 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
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
Donald Trump read the lyrics to Al Wilson’s 1968 R&B song “The Snake” during a rally in Iowa Tuesday night to illustrate what might happen if the United States allows Syrian refugees into the United States.
The song tells the story of a woman who finds a snake on the streets and takes him in, but he turns on her.
“Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in oh tender woman, sighed the snake…..But instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite,” reads the lyrics.
Trump put on his glasses and read the lyrics from a white piece of paper to the Cedar Falls, IA crowd of 1,300.
“Now she clutched him to her bosom, ‘You’re so beautiful,” she cried. But if I hadn’t brought you in by now you might have died.”
Leading up to the lyrics, Trump talked about refugees living in Cologne, Germany calling it a disaster.
“I don’t think you wanna have, people coming in from the migration from Syria, and when you look at that migration, it’s very unusual. When I look at it, I see so many men, and they’re young. They look like they should be on the wrestling team,” Trump said. “And they’re young and they’re strong, and you don’t see that many women.”
Telling his supporters that the refugees have “no documentation whatsoever,” Trump called for Gulf states like Saudi Arabia to construct a safe zone in Syria.
“Saudi Arabia who has a billion dollars a day before the oil went down. So now they’re making half, Ok? They’re making a lot. Get them to pay,” he said.
Trump said he read the lyrics to “The Snake” the other day and called them incredible.
“It was like story time with Trump,” said Tyler Rowe, a University of Iowa student who says he’s voting for the billionaire businessman.
