Don't Tread On Me (Take 6, December 15th, 1990)

[Studio Banter]

[?]: Uh, Don't Tread on Me, take 6

*laugh*

*[?]*

*drums playing*

What are we playing?

*guitar playing*

[?]

[Intro]

Don't tread on me

I said, "Don't tread on me"

[Verse 1]

Liberty or death

What we so proudly hail

Once you provoke her

Rattling of her tail

Never begins it

Never, but once engaged

Never surrenders

Showing the fangs of rage

Said, "Don't tread on me"

Said, "Don't tread on me"

[Chorus]

So be it, threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it, settle the score

Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore

Don't tread on me

[Verse 2]

Love it or leave it

She with the deadly bite

Quick is the blue tongue

Forked as a lightning strike

Shining with brightness

Always on surveillance

The eyes, they never close

Emblem of vigilance

Said, "Don't tread on me"

Said, "Don't tread on me"

[Chorus]

So be it, threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it, settle the score

Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore

Don't tread on me

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]

So be it, threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

[Verse 3]

Liberty or death

What we so proudly hail

Once you provoke her

Rattling of her tail

[Chorus]

So be it, threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it, settle the score

Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore

Don't tread on me