God Looked Around
Album: Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can
God Looked Around
Written by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Snake Farm Publishing (SESAC)
Administered by BMG/Chrysalis
God looked around
Didn’t see nothing
Said, ‘well, shucks let there be light’
So up come the sun
Bright as all get out
Then he split it up into day & night
God looked around
Wasn’t much to look at
So he fabricated heaven and earth
So now there’s solid ground
Divvied up by the waters
Said well there it is for what its worth
He gave wings to birds
So they’d fly in the air
And legs for critters walking on the ground
Allocated fish to the water
And beasts to the fields
And creeping things to crawl around
God looked around
Didn’t see no one
Reached down and picked up some dust
Then he spit on it
Kneaded it like bread dough
And a man rose up full-grown as such
God looked at this man
Saw he was lonely
Said go to sleep, guess I ain’t done
He pried out one of his ribs
Slapped some hide around it
There was two now where once there’s one
He gave it some curves
And lips red as cherries
And ravishing curly raven hair
The man he woke up
And looked at the woman
Said good oh lord you done answered my prayers
Now things was righteous
When a snake walked up
Said hey women take a bite of this
You’ll be smart as God
And you’ll live forever
You’d be foolish to resist
The woman said no way
‘Don’t eat from that tree,”
Those was God’s very own words
Oh but the snake sweet talked her
And the woman took a bite
Then realized she’s naked as a jaybird
The woman went to the man
And he took a taste
I’m undraped he proclaimed
They heard God a coming
And they went and hid
Cause they was naked and ashamed
Well God found ’em
Said you ate forbidden fruit
The woman cried the snake duped me I was tempted
God said I told not to
And since you disobeyed
Your time in paradise is ended
So God cast ’em out
Dooming us all to die
That’s why its the way it is
God said to the snake
You done talking and walking
That’s why to this day they slither and hiss