Q: A song for a snake?

For the next two or three weeks I am offering bread and abode (or rather worms and glass tank) to 'Smoothie', pet snake of my son's daycare. Apparently, one of the visiting parents has an acute ophidiophobia (yes, I looked that up. now that my company is sending me a newsletter with a 'word of the day', I feel that learning a new word a day is not a bad thing), and she called the ministry on them. So it's the axe or a temporary exile for poor old legless. Here's to peer fascism, and a song of pity for our slithery, slimy friends ...
Well, maybe not pity exactly. Al Wilson's The Snake, a steamy, hard-to-find Northern Soul track, is a bit of a play on Aesop's fable of the scorpion and the frog, and the supposed unsuppressable nature of evil. Honestly, Smoothie doesn't look that bad to me, but maybe he's an anaconda at heart and he planned all along to break out one morning and feast one 25 human 5-yearlings. Enjoy.

A: Al Wilson - The Snake (from Searching for the Dolphins, 1968) [Out of print]