"Spiders & Snakes" is a 1974 hit song recorded by Jim Stafford and written by Stafford and David Bellamy of The Bellamy Brothers. It was the second of four U.S. Top 40 singles released from his eponymous debut album and also the highest-charting at number three. The lyrics in the verses are spoken, while only the chorus is sung. The song begins with the narrator being asked by a girl, to walk her home from school, which he accepts. She says to him that they should spend some time together instead of being home alone, making the narrator to go to the swimming hole, while she may be thinking of love or sex. While at the swimming hole, the narrator catches a frog on a hollow log, in which he shakes it at her saying "This Frog's for you", causing the girl to tell him that she dislikes spiders and snakes, which is not the way for romance to happen. After a while, the narrator phones her to get together again, in which she says that she'll see him after school. He is nervous this time, thinking of another scheme, when the girl firmly tells him perfectly clear that she repeats her dislike for spiders and snakes, for the same unromantic reasons.