Featuring: Bob Fosse

If you would like to cure the fever

Called life
Get some relief from all the struggle
And strife

The grandest medicine that I can propose
Is under your nose
A snake in the grass


If you would like a spot
Where life never goes

Where you can leave your body
Home in your clothes
The finest travel agent

you'll ever meet
Is right at your feet
A snake in the grass


One sting
And you can say goodbye

To all of your friends

One sting

And you'll be singing
As your spirit ascends


All's well that ends
So any day or night
Wherever you are

If you would like to take
A trip to a star
The quickest transportation

Yet known to Man
Is none other than
A snake in the grass

A snake in the grass
A snake in the grass


If you would like to leave
That inhuman race
And take up residence

Out yonder, in space
When you are ready
To go traveling on

Sit right down upon
A snake in the grass


One sting
Is quite enough to make you
Happy and free


One sting
And you'll discover

How relaxed you can be
Posthumously


And while you're wandering through
The heavenly blue
If you should see the Lord come

Strolling in view
Go up and say you bring him
Best wishes from his fallen old chum

A snake in the grass
A snake in the grass
A snake in the grass


One sting.
it's almost painless.

A snake in the grass
A snake in the grass
A snake in the grass

I'll be waiting.