Miko
Rattlesnake is one of nine tracks on an album Michelle wrote and recorded in a scant month for the RPM Challenge. It’s a straightforward American country blues song that, like the whole album, would feel just right by a campfire with a bottle making the rounds.
Words & lyrics by Michelle Moon. Michelle - guitar & vocals. Recorded by Craig Edwards.
By most accounts, Clyde Barrow was never anything but mean. Son of a failed sharecropper, his childhood consisted of living under a bridge and eating soup-kitchen handouts. To Barrow, in those early days of the Depression, trying to earn an honest living was plain stupid.
Where the farm to market road crosses the ravine
That's where you find the boys that is mean
Flip cards into a hat, wait for dark to fall
That's where they like to hide out from the law
Where you hear a rattle you are bound to find a snake
A fool begs, a smart man takes
Daddy got eight children, he can barely keep him fed
Must be days he wishes he was dead
Standing on a bread line for beans out of a can
How can that be what you'd call a man
Where you hear a rattle you are bound to find a snake
A fool begs, a smart man takes
God didn't give us nothing, no man give me a dime
I see omething I can use, I make it mine
Way it seems to me, ain't no other way to live
May's well take what don't nobody give
Where you hear a rattle you are bound to find a snake
A fool begs, a smart man takes
It's a fool begs, a smart man takes.
