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5. Ants
Written by Steve Van Zandt

They came into the house and they didn’t use the door.
They walked across the wall and they marched across the floor.
They climbed up on the chair where I sat down and ate.
They stepped on the table and they stomped upon my plate.

They went onto the counter and encountered a spill.
That’s where they congregated and they ate their fill.
They passed unnoticed where my dog and brothers played,
Then they left through the window in an endless parade.

CHORUS
Thos e ants – ants!
Thos e ants – ants!
Thos e ants – ants!
Thos e ants – ants!
What those ants have in common
Is that they keep a comin’
They just keep on a walkin’
And nothings gonna stop ‘em
Those ants!

I got down on my belly and I looked them in the face.
I said to every ant, “Get out of my place!”
But when I started seeing from an ant’s point of view,
I wanted to know more about what ants can do.
CHORUS

Some ants, they are gardeners.
They grow mushrooms with dead leaves.
Others they are ranchers, milking aphids in the trees.
When army ants are hungry, whatever’s in their way
Could be devoured in less than a day.
CHORUS

They use their antennas – that’s how they move along,
By smelling the ground where other ants have gone.
And they can lift up things ten times the weight they are.
If we could be that strong then we could lift a car.
CHORUS

I had my picnic basket and my checkered cloth spread.
But first I took a nap and I laid down my head.
When I work up, you can guess what I did see.
They were crawling everywhere to share my lunch with me.
CHORUS

copyright Slug Music (BMI) 1995
www.BananaSlugStringBand.com

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from Penguin Parade, released January 1, 1995

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