she was once an attraction at the county fair and now she sleeps in a box at the top of the stairs and she loves it here make no mistake cause she can earn her keep by chasin snakes and if i wake up late at night i know that everything will be alright cause crawling round on my roof is the woman who is also a mongoose she was born in may nineteen years ago in a little town outside buffalo but the town folk feared her and they chased her away and now she s happy with a place to stay and if i wake up late at night i know that everything will be alright cause crawling round on my roof is the woman who is also a mongoose she trapped a rattler out behind the barn and she let it go without any harm then she came inside for a cup of tea and she spoke for a while with my brother and me chasing after field mice running through the high grass that s what she loves to do and if she s happy as a mongoose it shouldn t bother me or you and if i wake up late at night i know that everything will be alright cause crawling round on my roof is the woman who is also a mongoose