Kathy Mar - Quetzalcoatl lyrics

Time Winds Tavern (1985) Quetzalcoatl had a skin all green and mottled And it stayed that way through all the skins he shed And though he had a silver tongue Nobody could stop laughing Long enough to even hear the things he said So he decided that a feather coat would do the trick And whether that was wise or not he set rght out to get it He connived a spider into spinning him a silken chicken skin And doing it for nothing - so he let it And he was slick Yes he was slick He could hide in your clothing And even you would miss the place he hid And he could talk He talked so slick Well, they say that he could talk The feathers off a chicken... And he did! Quetzalcoatl took a very fancy bottle Of the finest liquer to the chicken farm And he kept that rooster drinkin' 'til the feathers started thinkin' It was warm enough to do his body harm And then he offered sweetly To replace their feathers neatly With the lightest coat of spider silk around He got those plumes together And he made himself a feather skin And slithered off in bliss along the ground And he was slick Yes he was slick He could hide in your clothing And even you would miss the place he hid And he could talk He talked so slick Well, they say that he could talk The feathers off a chicken... And he did! Why, he was so slick They used him for an Air Hockey table! He's been banned with twelve miles Of the Califonia coast! Why do you think they call it "Snake Oil?"