11Howling Wolf
©2002 Gibbens/Weston

I am the howling wolf babe, howling all around your door.
I am the howling wolf babe, howling all around your door.
Don’t you hear me howling?
Don’t you want the wolf no more?

I’ll be in the woods, girl, you just whistle when he goes.
I’ll be in the woods, girl, you just whistle when he goes.
I’ll cover up my traces
And your good man needn’t know.

Don’t mess with the white wolf if you meet him in your unripe corn.
Don’t mess with the white wolf running through your fields of corn.
Mama was that mountain,
Daddy was a thunderstorm.

Saw my youngest brother, hanging by a rusty nail.
I saw my baby brother hanging by a rusty nail.
But you won’t adorn your barn door
With my big long bushy tail.

Heard you in the hollow, whisper, Wolf come home again.
I heard you in the hollow, whisper, Wolf come home again.
Here I am the wolf now,
Green eyes shining in your panes.

The trappers try to track me, the hound dogs bay along my trail.
Trappers try to track me and hound dogs bay along my trail.
But I drift like the snowfall,
Silent through the winter’s gale.

Saw your lamplight shining, warm and friendly through the pines.
Saw your lamplight shining just like honey through the pines.
Mm your buttermilk may
Make me reel like champagne wine.

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