Here's the version from Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection. The Warners collected it from Frank Proffitt in 1941. Sandy Paton recorded Proffitt singing this song in 1962, and the lyrics are almost the same [Folk-Legacy Records #FSA-1, Frank Proffitt of Reese, North Carolina (click for sample)]

CLUCK OLD HEN

CHORUS
Cluck old hen, cluck and squall
You ain't laid an egg since away last fall
Cluck old hen, cluck and sing
You ain't laid an egg since away last sprong spring

I have got
A good old hen
She lays eggs
For railroad men
CHORUS

My old hen
She won't do
She lays eggs
And taters too
CHORUS

The old hen cackled
Cackled in the lot
Next time she cackled
She cackled in the pot
CHORUS

one more verse the Warners got from Tom P. Smith of West Virginia:

The old hen she cackled
She cackled in the morn
She cackled for the rooster
To come get his pecker warm

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