The Spider-Flanders & Swann

[ti:The Spider] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:Animals] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Spider (蜘蛛) - Flanders & Swann [00:04.40]I have fought a Grizzly Bear [00:06.58]Tracked a Cobra to its lair [00:08.07] [00:08.61]Killed a Crocodile who dared to cross my path [00:11.75] [00:12.97]But the thing I really dread [00:14.51] [00:15.07]When I've just got out of bed [00:17.08] [00:17.63]Is to find that there's a Spider in the bath [00:20.34] [00:23.58]I've no fear of Wasps or Bees [00:25.43] [00:26.06]Mosquitoes only tease [00:27.59] [00:28.25]I rather like a Cricket on the hearth [00:31.08] [00:31.80]But my blood runs cold to meet [00:34.63]In pyjamas and bare feet [00:36.55] [00:37.34]With a great big hairy spider in the bath [00:39.92] [00:41.42]I have faced a charging Bull in Barcelona [00:44.30] [00:45.16]I have dragged a mountain Lioness from her cubs [00:47.98] [00:48.67]I've restored a mad Gorilla to it's owner [00:51.52] [00:52.46]But I don't dare face that tub [00:55.17] [00:56.66]What a frightful looking beast - [00:58.78]Half an inch across at least - [01:00.89]It would frighten even Superman or Garth [01:03.79] [01:04.96]There's contempt it can't disguise [01:06.85] [01:07.58]In the little beady eyes [01:09.50] [01:10.06]Of the Spider sitting glowering in the bath [01:12.94] [01:20.04]It ignores my every lunge [01:22.33]With the backbrush and the sponge [01:24.28]I have bombed it with A present from Penarth [01:26.90] [01:28.25]It just rolls into a ball [01:29.71] [01:30.51]Doesn't seem to mind at all [01:32.02] [01:33.07]And simply goes on squatting in the bath [01:35.49] [01:37.42]For hours we have been locked in endless struggle [01:39.71] [01:40.74]I have lured it to the deep end by the drain [01:43.32] [01:44.70]At last I think I've washed it down the plughole [01:47.14] [01:48.53]Here it comes a-crawling up the chain [01:50.41] [01:51.64]Now it's time for me to shave [01:53.32] [01:53.92]Though my nerves will not behave [01:55.27] [01:56.02]And there's bound to be a fearful aftermath [01:58.63] [01:59.75]So before I cut my throat [02:02.33]I shall leave this final note [02:04.35] [02:05.13]Driven to it - by the Spider in the bath