You know mama told me now   You're a child on your way   Don't you bother looking back   At the steps you took today      I feel swallowed by the road   Like a man without a name   'Cause the poison in my skin   Has the color of your game      Shake away, shake away   All the many sorrows   Slide away, slide away   Like a rattlesnake      Shake away, shake away   All the dry and loose skin   All the anger and the hate   Like a rattlesnake      Take me away   To the wind of November   You are my thunder   My path and my voice      Take me away   To the place in your story   'Cause I can taste   Bitterness in your tongue      Can you hear me, mama?   Can you hear me, sister?   Can you hear me, child?      Can you hear me, mama?   Can you hear me, sister?   Can you hear me, child?      Shake away, shake away   All the many sorrows   Slide away, slide away   Like a rattlesnake      Shake away, shake away   All the dry and loose skin   All the anger and the hate   Like a rattlesnake      Take me away   To the wind of November   You are my thunder   My path and my voice      Take me away   To the place in your story   'Cause I can taste   Bitterness in your tongue      Can you hear me, mama?   Can you hear me, sister?   Can you hear me, child, child?      Can you hear me, mama?   Can you hear me, sister?   Can you, can you hear me, child?