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The Snake
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The Snake was released on March 26, 2002 by Nettwerk Music Group as a part of the album The Rose
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Release DateMarch 26, 2002
LabelNettwerk Music Group
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Mediaeval Baebes
Mediaeval Baebes
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Mediaeval Baebes
Mediaeval Baebes
Songwriter
Katharine Blake
Katharine Blake
Songwriter

Lyrics

Era vn ortolano byen sinpre e syn mal;
en el mes de enero con fuerte tenporal,
andando por su huerta, vido so vn peral
vna culebra chica, medio muerta atal.
Con la nieue E con el viento e con la elada fria,
estaua la culebra medio amodorrida;
el omne piadoso que la vido aterida,
doliose mucho della, quisole dar la vida.
Tomola en la falda e leuola a su casa,
pusola çerca del fuego, çerca de buena blasa,
abiuo la culebra ante que la el asa,
entro en vn forado desa cosina rrasa.
aqueste ome bueno dauale cada dia
del pan E de la leche e de quanto el comia;
creçio con el grand vyçio e con el grand bien que tenia, tanto que
sierpe grande a todos paresçia.
venido es el estio, la siesta affyncada,
que ya non avia miedo de viento nin de elada,
salyo de aquel forado sañuda E ayrada;
començo de enponçoñar con venino la posada.
dixole el ortolano: “vete de aqueste lugar,
non fagas aqui dapño!” elle fuese en-sañar,
ablaçolo tan fuerte que lo querria afogar,
apretandolo mucho, cruel mente, syn vagar.
[translation]
There was a simple honest gardener
who was walking through his garden
in January, in a bad storm. Under a pear tree
he spied a small snake which looked half dead.
The snake was very sluggish
because of the snow and wind and ice.
When the kind man saw it stiff with cold
he felt very sorry for it and tried to revive it.
He wrapped it in his clothes and carried it to his house;
he put it near the fire, near the warmth of the blaze.
The snake perked up, and before it was roasted,
it went and found a hole in the smooth kitchen floor.
Every day the good man gave it
bread and milk, and some of his own food.
The snake grew because it was happy and well cared for, until it
looked like an enormous serpent to everyone.
When the summer came, with the heat well established,
and no longer a threat from the wind and cold,
it came out of its hole angry and irate,
and began to poison the house with its venom.
The gardener said to it: ”Get out of here!
Don’t you harm this place!” and it grew enraged.
It wrapped itself round him tightly as if to strangle him,
squeezing him cruelly, hissing all the time.
Written by: Katharine Blake, Mediaeval Baebes
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