Boa Constrictor (song)
[4] Released as the third single from the album (Columbia 4-43763, with a non-album track "Bottom of a Mountain" on the opposite side),[4][5][6][7] the song reached number 39 on the U.S.In this song, the singer is being swallowed by a boa constrictor and counting down the body parts the snake is consuming along the way.Cash's version was released as the third single from this album and made it to number 39 on the country chart.The third single, “Boa Constrictor,” was the second Shel Silverstein song Cash recorded (the first being "25 Minutes to Go").The B-side was a non-album track called "Bottom of [a] Mountain," featuring the acoustic work of Norman Blake and Bob Johnson.