You Don't Mess With Sethra Lavode

ttto You Don't Mess Around With Jim, by Jim Croce
Mark A. Mandel Copr. 2003
(The backticks [`] in the spoken break come before a syllable with a downbeat.
Lines in italics are spoken, not sung.
The extra lines in the final chorus -- second and third lines from the end --
use the same tune as "You don't mess with Seth(ra)".)

Athyra got their wands and staves,
Dragonlords their swords.
The whole Empire got Sethra Lavode
And she's older than the Orb.

She's the Enchantress of Dzur Mountain
She's a Dzur and a Dragon too
Been Warlord more times than anybody can count
And she sure ain't scared of you.
And they say ...

    [Chorus]
    You don't spit in a Dragon's face
    You don't challenge a Dzur for the road
    You don't turn informer on the Organization
    And you don't mess with Sethra Lavode.

Well, outa nowhere come a nine-foot Jenoine,
Said,  I am looking for Sethra Lavode. 
 You products cannot pronounce my name 
 But some of you call me 'Toad' .

 She has something that does not belong to her 
 And she is standing in our way. 
The zombie said, "I will announce you, sir,
But you know, sir, what they say.
Sir, they say..."

    Chorus

Well, then Sethra herself walked into the room
And she brought along a couple of friends.
There were swords and spells and energy fields
And by the time it all came to an end

The Enchantress was dead exhausted
But the Jenoine was just plain dead
The story was declared an Imperial Secret
But the ones that heard it said,
You know what they said...

[Chorus]

Yeah, Toad got a big surprise
Right between his big round eyes.
`Even if she `came from the `rock of Dzur `Mountain
Don't take `Sethra La`vode for `granite.

    [Final chorus]
    You don't spit in a Dragon's face
    You don't challenge a Dzur for the road
    You don't turn informer on the Organization
    And you don't mess with Sethra Lavode.

     Well, if you want to
         You can spit in a Dragon's face
    And if you must
         You can challenge a Dzur for the road
    And if you're crazy
         You can turn informer on the Organization
    But whatever you do, whatever you do,
    If you value your life and if you value your soul,
    You don't mess with Sethra Lavode.


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