Spiders & Snakes ( song ) - wikipedia Spiders & Snakes ( song ) `` Spiders & Snakes '' Single by Jim Stafford from the album Jim Stafford B - side `` Undecided '' Released November 1973 Format 7 '' Recorded 1973 Genre Country, pop, swamp rock Length 3 : 07 Label MGM Records Songwriter ( s ) Jim Stafford, David Bellamy Producer ( s ) Phil Gernhard and Lobo Jim Stafford singles chronology `` Swamp Witch '' ( 1973 ) `` Spiders & Snakes '' ( 1973 ) `` My Girl Bill '' ( 1974 ) `` Swamp Witch '' ( 1973 ) `` Spiders & Snakes '' ( 1973 ) `` My Girl Bill '' ( 1974 ) `` Spiders & Snakes '' is a 1974 hit song recorded by Jim Stafford and written by Stafford and David Bellamy. It was the second of four U.S. Top 40 singles released from his eponymous debut album and also the highest - charting. The song is about a boy who, although he is shy, has a girl who likes him named Mary Lou. He makes faltering attempts to respond to her when they are alone, which finally include trying to give her a frog. She promptly protests and summarily rebuffs him. Still in school, they later develop a more mature relationship with the boy as the initiator instead of Mary Lou, but when they are once again alone she nonetheless feels the need to remind him, still nervous, that she does `` not '' like spiders and snakes, or any other such similar creatures, and that it takes something else to satisfy her loving desires. `` Spiders and Snakes '' was one of the top hits of 1974, spending one week at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. In Canada, the song reached number one. The song spent five and a half months on the US charts, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on March 8, 1974. Contents 1 Chart performance 1.1 Weekly charts 1.2 Year - end charts 2 References 3 External links Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1973 -- 74 ) Peak position Australia 19 Canadian RPM Top Singles Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary 9 New Zealand ( Listener ) 16 UK 14 US Billboard Hot 100 US Billboard Adult Contemporary 28 US Country 66 US Cash Box Top 100 Year - end charts Chart ( 1974 ) Rank Australia 85 Canada RPM Top Singles 29 US Billboard Hot 100 16 US Cash Box Top 100 15 References Jump up ^ https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-swamp-rock-2522008/ ^ Jump up to : `` Music : Top 100 Songs Billboard Hot 100 Chart ''. Billboard.com. 1974 - 03 - 02. Retrieved 2015 - 05 - 28. ^ Jump up to : `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2015 - 05 - 28. Jump up ^ Murrells, Joseph ( 1978 ). The Book of Golden Discs ( 2nd ed. ). London : Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 336. ISBN 0 - 214 - 20512 - 6. ^ Jump up to : Steffen Hung. `` Forum - 1970 ( ARIA Charts : Special Occasion Charts ) ''. Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 10. Jump up ^ `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2015 - 05 - 28. Jump up ^ http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20listener&qartistid=1448#n_view_location Jump up ^ `` Official Charts Company ''. Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2015 - 05 - 28. Jump up ^ Billboard Adult Contemporary, February 23, 1974 Jump up ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, March 9, 1974 Jump up ^ `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2015 - 05 - 28. Retrieved 2015 - 05 - 28. Jump up ^ `` Top 100 Hits of 1974 / Top 100 Songs of 1974 ''. Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2015 - 05 - 28. Jump up ^ Cash Box Year - End Charts : Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1974 External links Lyrics of this song Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiders_%26_Snakes_(song)&oldid=843168828 '' Categories : 1973 songs 1974 singles MGM Records singles Jim Stafford songs Songs written by David Bellamy ( singer ) Songs about animals Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 27 May 2018, at 10 : 18 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who sang the song i don't like spiders and snakes
Answer: Jim Stafford