Lyr Req: Cackling hen

Subject: Lyr Req: Cackling hen
From:
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 08:29 PM

I was asked if I could help with the words for a song or rhyme that includes the following :

‘Nor it ain’t the hen that cackles the most that lays the bonniest egg
Sitting in the hay, cackling all the day
Doing what the other hennies do
All they do is cock-a-doodle-doo"

I did't have and have tried countless leads with no success.

Can anyone out there help?

Thanks, Jack

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cackling hen
From: GUEST,Craig
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 09:34 AM

https://felicity-lowde-research.blogspot.com/2019/04/ mentions 'It’s Not the Hen that Cackles the Most that Lays the Largest Egg' and connects it to Minnie Cunningham, if that helps

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cackling hen
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 10:48 AM

Yes, sung by Minnie, 1870-1954. Kilgarriff dates it to 1893, but doesn't give any writer info.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cackling hen
From:
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 03:58 AM

Thanks for that, Still looking for all the worda tho'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cackling hen
From: GUEST,John Bowden (not a typo!)
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 05:52 AM

Theres a recording of Will Fyffe singing it here - hopefully you can decipher the words from that!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cackling hen
From: cnd
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 12:12 PM

Almost certainly not the same song but there's also sheet music from the University of Nebraska to a song titled Snapshots ("The Rooster and the Hens") which has a similar gist to it.

http://memories.nebraska.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/Polley/id/572/rec/28