The Spider-Flanders & Swann

[ti:The Spider] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:The Complete Flanders & Swann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Spider (蜘蛛) - Flanders & Swann [00:04.86]I have fought a Grizzly Bear [00:07.12]Tracked a Cobra to its lair [00:09.36]Killed a Crocodile who dared to cross my path [00:13.47]But the thing I really dread [00:15.99]When I've just got out of bed [00:18.47]Is to find that there's a Spider in the bath [00:22.93] [00:24.68]I've no fear of Wasps or Bees [00:26.60]Mosquitoes only tease [00:29.16]I rather like a Cricket on the hearth [00:32.93]But my blood runs cold to meet [00:35.68]In pyjamas and bare feet [00:38.40]With a great big hairy spider in the bath [00:42.59]I have faced a charging Bull in Barcelona [00:46.37]I have dragged a mountain Lioness from her cubs [00:49.93]I've restored a mad Gorilla to it's owner [00:53.81]But I don't dare face that tub [00:58.10]What a frightful looking beast - [01:00.41]Half an inch across at least - [01:02.59]It would frighten even Superman or Garth [01:06.51]There's contempt it can't disguise [01:09.15]In the little beady eyes [01:11.67]Of the Spider sitting glowering in the bath [01:22.05]It ignores my every lunge [01:24.15]With the backbrush and the sponge; [01:26.22]I have bombed it with 'A present from Penarth' [01:30.23]It just rolls into a ball [01:32.51]Doesn't seem to mind at all [01:35.19]And simply goes on squatting in the bath [01:39.50]For hours we have been locked in endless struggle [01:42.98]I have lured it to the deep end by the drain [01:46.55]At last I think I've washed it down the plughole [01:50.83]Here it comes a-crawling up the chain [01:54.23]Now it's time for me to shave [01:56.36]Though my nerves will not behave [01:58.58]And there's bound to be a fearful aftermath [02:02.33]So before I cut my throat [02:04.89]I shall leave this final note; [02:07.79]Driven to it - by the Spider in the bath