What is the kind of snake that is black with a solid yellow stripe and broken red stripes?

Question

We saw this in the backyard, please help.

Answer 1

Are the stripes long ways or go around the snake?

Does the red touch the yellow or just the black?

Answer 2

its either a coral or a milk snake

Answer 3

isnt the rhyme "red and yellow kill a fellow"? thats how you know .

if that rhyme is the exact pattern of your snake you have a coral if not your good its a plesant milk snake