The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite and laughs at his own inability to pronounce that correctly, which Mike Mills kept trying to get him to do. Stipe says he loved Dr. Seuss as a kid but always pronounced his name the wrong way. The song's complete title is not featured in the lyrics, but there is the line "the sidewinder sleeps in a coil" as well as the later line "the sidewinder sleeps on its back". A sidewinder is a species of rattlesnake ("Crotalus cerastes"), and also an antique style of telephone, with a winding handle on the side. The lyrics frequently refer to making and
Collared reed snake with a dark line along the tail in the Burmese and Javan specimens, obscured with brown mottlings or brown with lighter borders in "C. p. siamensis". The total length of the body is with a 0.6-in (1.5-cm) tail. This snake can be found in India (Assam), Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, west Malaysia (including Pulau Tioman), Indonesia, south and southwest China (including Hainan), Taiwan, and Japan (Ryukyu Islands). Type locality: Java, Indonesia Collared reed snake The collared reed snake (Calamaria pavimentata) is a species of colubrid snake found in Asia. In Japan, it is also called Miyara's collared snake. The