Lyric discussion by mgajosh 

Cover art for Sharon lyrics by David Bromberg

An allegory of the cold war.

Crawling on her belly like a reptile, extreme flexibility, Sharon is the snake in the Eden story, tempting the poet speaker to abandon the typical American scene in which the action starts, to become a Russia-supporting communist, i.e. the Red-Bear man in the song, who uses Sharon's propagandistic allure to bring people into the tent of International Socialism.

Or maybe it's about a dude who falls in love with a stripper. I guess the latter.