Fish Leslie - Female of the Species Lyrics
He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn asideBut the she-bear thus accosted wrends the peasent tooth and nail,For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.When Nog, the basking cobra hears the careless foot of manHe will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he canbut his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail,For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Heurons and ChaktawsThey prayed to be delivered from the vengence of the sqawsTwas the women not the warriors turn those stark enthusiasts paleFor the female of the species is more deadly than the male.Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not sayFor the woman that god gave him isn't his to give awayBut when hunter meets with husband, each confirms the other's tale,That the female of his species is more deadly than the male.She who faces death by turture for each life beneith her breastMay not deal in dought or pity, must not swerve or fact or jestThese are purely male diversions, not in these her honor dwellsShe, the other law they live by is that law and nothing elseUnprovoked and off her charges, even so the she-bear fightsSpeech that trips, coorodes or poisons, even so the cobra bitesScientific vivisection of one nerve till it is rawand the victim writhes in anguish like the Jesuit with the squaw.So it comes that man, the coward when he gathers to confer-with his fellow braves in council dare not leave a place for herWhile at war with life and conciounce, he uplifts his erring handsto some god of abstract justice that no woman understandsAnd man knows it- knows more over that the woman that god gave himmust command but may not govern, shall enthrall but not enslave himAnd she knows because she warns him and her instincts never failThat the female of her species is more deadly than the male.