Everybody knows the cliche "loose as a goose." It's turned up in several recent pop and rock songs

Bob, I'm a part of everybody and I ashamed{?} to admit that I didn't know that the phrase "loose as a goose" was part of "several recent pop and rock songs". I'd love to know what songs these are and which country {countries?} they were {are?} known in.

But...

Though I don't have an answer about the meaning of that phrase and its original song source, I'm absolutely delighted to learn about the songs that have been posted on this thread since I love finding possible sources for the phrases used in children's rhymes and cheers and "How Funky Is The Chicken" is the name of a contemporary children's cheerleader cheer. To date, there are four examples of that cheer that are posted on my website http://www.cocojams.com/cheerleader_cheers.htm. Here are two of those examples:

How Funky Is The Chicken {Example #1}
{The rest of the squad and the audience repeat each line after the soloist}

How funky is the chicken.
How loose is the goose.
So come on everybody.
And shake your caboose.
Yeah. And shake your caboose.
-Faith, Hope, and Grace {African American sisters, 6-9 years old, Alafia Children's Ensemble, Braddock, Pennsylvania; 1998}

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How Funky Is The Chicken {Example #3}
HEEEEY-O this is how we go How funky is your chicken? How loose is your goose? How high can u fly? How low can go? How fast can you run NOT FAST ENOUGH BECAUSE WE WON!
-missy {Australia}; 4/21/2007
   
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I should note that "How Funky Is The Chicken" doesn't appear to be that well known in the Pittsburgh area among the African American children I've worked with. I asked my daughter who teaches at a Pittsburgh elementary school if she's ever heard children reciting this rhyme {besides in the Braddock group referenced above} and she said she hadn't. The girls who are cited as the sources for the cheer in 1998, offered that cheer in response to my asking the group for examples of any rhymes and cheers. The girls had just moved into Braddock, Pennsylvania from another Pittsburgh area city whose name I don't recall. It didn't appear that anyone in that group of about twenty 5-12 year old girls and boys had every heard that cheer, but because of its call and response format, they enjoyed learning the cheer, and doing its movements {particularly the one where you switch your hips while saying "shake your caboose"}.

I never thought to ask the children {or myself} what "loose is the goose" or "funky is the chicken" meant. And the earliest use of the phrase "funky chicken" that I knew of before reading this thread was the 1973? R&B song that was recorded in 1973? by Rufus Thomas. So I'm also delighted to know about other earlier resources for "funky as a chicken".

Here's a link to a YouTube video of Rufus Thomas' Funky Chicken which was videotaped at Woodstock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwlGNNqGf_g

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Thanks for starting this thread, Bob!