Songs about chickens

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Nov 09 - 05:19 PM

refresh...for those who really need another 'chicken' song...

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 12:41 PM

Well, you'll have to decide whether this is about chickens or not.

Tex Ritter, "Chicken My Chicken"

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: PHJim
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 11:41 AM

Here's Hayes Carll's chicken song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTnYj9d2os

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: cetmst
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 07:04 AM

The Mill Run Dulcimer Band on the album "We Shall Meet" record
"Will There Be Any Chickens In Pradise?" atributed to Emily Luertzing and Neal Walters. "This song, straight from Vineland NJ, the egg basket of America, poses the profound philosophical question that haunts us all. With a special guest appearance from the Sister Cluckers".

Will there be chickens in Paradise,
In that sweet bye and bye,
Any roosters and hens all freed of their sins,
In that great chicken coop in the sky?

Cho:
Will there be chickens in Paradise
Perched on the throne of our Lord,
Hatchin'and layin'and peckin'and prayin',
Crowin' a heavenly chord?

Will I see my old friends in Paradise,
Henrietta and old Chanticleer?
I'd be so lonely in Paradise
If those sweet little pluckers weren't there.

Cho:

Will the Colonel be thrown from his heavenly home?
Only the future will tell,
For the chicken he's et, I'm sure it's a pet.
He'll be deep fat fryin'in Hell.

Cho:

Will there be chickens in Paradise
Roostin'in clouds in God's sky?
They'll be the only angels in Paradise
Too dumb to learn how to fly.

Cho: (accomapnied by the Sister Cluckers)

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: David el Gnomo
Date: 30 Oct 09 - 01:49 PM

Gallo de Ciello - or the Mexican Chicken Song as we used to ask of the late great Jim Couza.

Then there is always Sam Cooke's Twisting the night away -

He's dancing with the chicken slacks...

...or is that some sort of mondegreen?

DeG

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Oct 09 - 12:36 PM

Did anyone mention Spike Jones' "I Ain't Gonna Take it Sittin' Down"?

I only remember a couple of verses:

I've heard it said while on the loose
You make the rounds with Sarah Goose
From all reports of how it looked
You tell that goose her goose is cooked

Oh, by the way, while you were out
I met a movie talent scout
He loves my walk, he loves my cluck,
He's starrin' me with Donald Duck.

I ain't gonna take it sittin' down,
I ain't gonna take it sittin' down,
You needn't stand around and plead,
Quit handin' me that chicken feed,
I ain't gonna take it sittin' down!

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: open mike
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 12:45 PM

has this one in Spanish been mentioned?

Los Pollitos dicen pio pio pio
cuando tienen hambre, cuando tienen frio

La gallina busca el maiz y el trigo
y hasta un otro dia duermen los pollitos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTApI_rUZ2E&NR=1

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 04:30 AM

This from the singing of Mikey Kelleher - fisherman and curragh maker originally from Quilty, West Clare, but when recorded in the 1970s, a retired building worker then living in Deptford, South East London.
Jim Carroll

DELANEY'S CHICKEN

Now Delaney, from the market bought a fowl a month ago,
If he find the man that sold it he'll kill him with a blow;
Delaney bought this chicken, being of a tender breed
And of a more deceitful bird you never heard agreed.

So when they sought to pluck it, their efforts was in vain,
Their hands were torn and blistered and their muscles they were strained,
And resting of this chicken, they put him down to stew,
If you want to see Delaney crack, cry cock-a-doodle-doo.

So Delaney bought this chicken for to give us all a spread
And after they arriving home they tried to pull off his head,
They ordered picks and shovels, they got twisted up like tin,
They tried to carve the chicken but they couldn't break the skin.

So this bird must have been crowing since they built the Tower of Abel (Babel)
He was fed by Cain and Abel and he lived in Noah's Stable,
All the shots and shells was fired in the field of Waterloo,
Could not penetrate or dislocate the tilugated, armour-plated, double-breasted, iron-chested cock-a-doodle-doo.

So they borrowed Daley's rammer, by which he rammed the stones,
Thinking that when tapped, would break the tender chicken's bones,
But the first one has rebounded like an India-rubber ball,
And knocked twelve yards of coping out of Muligan's garden wall.

So this bird must have been crowing since.....etc.

Oh the Dundee Extra Gunners came to excavate the thing,
And the sword he carved the Russian with while light three yards of string (???)
Old Tim brought the Davey Miner, through him they showed daylight,
While blowing up himself and the chicken with a pound of dynamite.

So to scrape the walls for chicken, it wasn't easy work,
It wasn't easy to know which was chicken or which was Burke,
But they found a leg of chicken on a friendly blacksmith's head,
And a pair of everlasting heels upon my boots it made.

So this bird it must have been crowing since....etc.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,RickS
Date: 28 Oct 09 - 12:53 PM

Haven't waded thru the whole thread, but Frank Stokes' 'Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon' is one I like.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Songbob
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 04:04 PM

Corrections:

A Yardbird isn't a chicken. From Wickipedia:

1 : a soldier assigned to a menial task or restricted to a limited area as a disciplinary measure
2 : an untrained or inept enlisted man

Charlie Parker (the sax Charlie, not the banjo one) was nicknamed "Yardbird," though I don't recall why.

And "Chickasay" is "Chickasaw" (an Indian tribe) in local dialect.

That is all.

Bob

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,Barnacle Babe
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 03:56 PM

The one that came to my mind was about a Rooster... by Bradley Kinkaid. My mom used to sing it to me.

I love my rooster, my rooster loves me
I play with my rooster neath the green bay tree.
My little rooster goes cockledoodle doo de doodle le doodle doodle do

I love my cat, my cat loves me
I play with my cat neath the green bay tree
My little cat goes meow, meow, meow,
My little rooster goes cockledoodle doo de doodle le doodle doodle do.


I love my dog.... and so on and so on.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 02:13 PM

Mississippi John Hurt did a Chicken Song, just spelling out the word CHICKEN. I don't remember all of it. It starts out:

"C", that's the way it begins,

"H", the first letter in. etc.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: bobad
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 11:46 AM

The Felice Brothers Run Chicken Run on YouTube.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: muppett
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 11:18 AM

Deep Fried Chicken to the tune of honky tonk woman (made famous by the Rolling Stones)

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: open mike
Date: 25 Oct 09 - 01:03 PM

http://www.peteralsop.com/TakeMeWithYou.htm#Chickens

here are the lyrics to the song i mentioned earlier:

CHICKENS FOR PEACE


Chickens for peace!

We're chickens for peace!

And we

Don't want to fry!

Chickens for peace!

We're chickens for peace!

One little war,

And we're chicken-pot-pie!



Chickens for peace!

We're chickens for peace!

And no one respects,

A chicken who begs!

Chickens for peace!

We're chickens for peace!

One little slip,

And we're hard boiled eggs!



Chickens for peace!

We're chickens for peace!

But we're not chicken chickens!

We're taking a stand!

Chickens for peace!

We're chickens for peace!

And our chicken spirit

Is sweeping the land!



The doves and the hawks are still fighting

The swans and the ducks are all wet!

But us chickens have all been uniting!

And what chickens want, chickens get!!



We're chickens for peace!

We're chickens for peace!

And we will win!

We're not turkeys! (Or geese!)

We're chickens for peace!

We're chickens for peace!

Hold up your beaks and join in!

Cause those bombs make hot water

That will make chicken soup from the grease

Of us chickens for peace!

Written by Peter Alsop, ©1985, Moose School Music (BMI)

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Oct 09 - 08:00 AM

This is the story:

How Earl Got Herbert

I got Herbert as a throw-in when I bought my friend Earl's Harley Davidson 125 for $90. Herbert was a Banty rooster. How Earl came about getting Herbert is an interesting story. Actually, it's two interesting stories, each of them kinda true.

Back in 1953, when Earl and I graduated from High School, Earl headed out to go to college at the University of Oregon, and because they frowned on Banty roosters in their dormitories, Earl reluctantly gave Herbert to me as a going away present. This is the way I remember Earl telling me how he came to have Herbert in the first place. Over the last fifty-some years, the story has become much more ornate.

According to what I remember, Earl was out in his front yard one Summer's day, when a car drove by and a Banty rooster came flying out of the rear window. The rooster immediately made a bee-line toward Earl's house and the man jumped out of the car and hit the road, running. The rooster, later to be named Herbert, was running, Hell Bent for Leather when he spotted an unsuspecting squirrel running across the yard. Even though Herbert was running for dear life, he couldn't ignore the challenge of the squirrel, and took off after it. As Herbert came skidding around the corner in hot pursuit of the squirrel, he almost ran into Earl and Earl, being quick of mind and sure-handed reached down and caught the rooster. When the man came around the corner puffing like a steam engine and saw Earl, he hit the brakes and asked Earl for his rooster. Now Earl, being a real slick talker, managed to convince the man that what he really wanted to do was give the rooster to Earl. So, Earl kept the rooster and named him Herbert and when he went away to college in the Fall, he gave Herbert to me. As I said, that's the way I remember Earl telling it.

Here is what actually happened, according to Earl in 2006. The rooster did indeed escape from a passing car, but it was someone else who lived across the street who caught it. When he couldn't keep it, he gave it to Earl. Earl has no idea how the rooster came to be called Herbert. There was no hot pursuit of a squirrel, or any slick-talking done by Earl.

As I tell Earl, he remembers what happened. I remember how it should have happened. I like my story a lot better. I even had Herbert riding in a Cadillac when I wrote a song about him. Nothing was too good for Herbert.


   "He came a' riding in to town in a great big Cadillac
    With the windows all rolled down, tied in a gunny sack
    But the sack was for potatoes, and not for Herbert's kind
    And with his spurs as sharp as razors, he cut the ties that bind"

So, how did the squirrel get in the story? When I owned Herbert, he was one of the first "Free-range" chickens in the country. Earl kept him tied to a pole with a stout string around one leg. I let Herbert have the run of the yard, and because it wasn't fenced in, he had the run of the whole neighborhood.

   "When Herbert strolled the neighborhood, the squirrels stayed in their nests
    The dogs all looked the other way, and the cats would genuflect"

Herbert found squirrels to be a personal affront, and he made life Hell for the neighbor's cat and the pigeons I raised in our garage. Early on, the cat made the mistake of stalking Herbert, and when he pounced for the attack, Herbert had mysteriously disappeared. He reappeared just as mysteriously on the cat's back with his spurs dug in as firmly as a rodeo cowboy. Herbert took the cat for a little ride, and it was the last time the cat came within one hundred yards of him.

   "And Herbert was the terror of the local countryside
    Sometimes he'd flag the neighbor's cat and he'd take him for a ride
    And the pigeons in my Dad's garage got up to bar the door
   For those who messed with Herbert, were never seen no more"

So you see, my memory of how Earl got Herbert was about 90% wrong, but it was 100% Herbert. If Earl HAD been the one to catch Herbert, he WOULD have smooth-talked the guy out of his rooster. For something that never happened, I got the story just about right.

The next year, when I went away to college, I took Herbert out to my Uncle Jim's farm. But the song tells the rest of the story.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Oct 09 - 07:58 AM

I
m surprised I didn't post this before. These are the lyrics to a song I wrote about a Banty Rooster I had as a teenager. He was a throw-in on the deal when I bought my friend Earl's Harley Davidson 125 when he went off to college in Oregon back in 1954. I had to give him to my Uncle when I went away to college the next year. I'll see if I can find the chapter I wrote about him, but these are the lyrics.

HERBERT

He came a' riding in to town in a great big Cadillac
With the windows all rolled down, tied in a gunny sack
But the sack was for potatoes, and not for Herbert's kind
And with his spurs as sharp as razors, he cut the ties that bind

CHORUS:
   
   And Herbert was the terror of the local countryside
   Sometimes he'd flag the neighbor's cat and he'd take him for a ride
   And there never was a man or beast who could make him miss a step
   And you can bet your bottom dollar, he hasn't met one yet

When Herbert strolled the neighborhood, the squirrels stayed in their nests
The dogs all looked the other way, and the cats would genuflect
And the pigeons in my Dad's garage got up and barred the door
For those who messed with Herbert were never seen no more

We took him to my Uncle's farm when I had to move away
The roosters met him at the gate, just to have a little play
But when he rode them 'round the yard, their enthusiasm waned
And I swear he'd jump them through a hoop, he had them so well trained

… My Aunt Gladys told me that when she went out into the yard the first night that Herbert was there, all the roosters were settled down in the yard. Except for Herbert. He claimed the hen house all to himself, and was feeling mighty pleased about it.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: eddie1
Date: 25 Oct 09 - 06:46 AM

Another verse for "The Rooster"

We had elephants, no tusks would they grow
These goddam elephants, no tusks would they grow
My wife said "Honey, we're losing money
These goddam elephants, no tusks will they grow"
Until that rooster came into our yard
And caught them elephants right off their guard.
They're laying eggs now, of solid ivory
Ever since that rooster, came into our yard.

Eddie

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Thompson
Date: 25 Oct 09 - 02:21 AM

Tá an coileach ag fogairt an lae

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,lyn
Date: 25 Oct 09 - 01:35 AM

Ozark Mountain Daredaredeveils have a great song "Chicken Train"

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 11:46 AM

How about "How do you like your eggs in the morning?" - Dean Martin

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: TonyK
Date: 02 Dec 05 - 02:42 PM

Parody of When a Man Loves a Woman, When a Man Loves a Chicken by Bob Rivers. Not suited for polite company, but good though.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 02 Dec 05 - 11:49 AM

There was a belter 12-bar from Stackridge, circa 1972, Keep on Cluckin' Can't remember all the words but some of them are:

Way down on old Sam McGurky's spread
Things are happenin' in his brand new shed
He's sold his wife and seven kids
And bought a thousand chickens instead.

chorus
It's a super[something], [something][something]
Super market, super chicken time
Give a booster to your rooster
Have a hundred per cent potential diamond mine
But you'd better keep on cluckin'
Or you'll end up on the factory line!

Six lonely bantems sitting on a wall
Along came a farmer and now there's none at all
One went to Tesco, one went to [Dell?]
The rest are pushing daisies coz they wouldn't sell.

So won't you listen all you L-brained dudes
When you open up your barbecues
Have the low-down at the ho-down
and you ain't got nothin' to lose.

chorus to fade ... plus much clucking

Clucking good song.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 02 Dec 05 - 11:40 AM

There is also a pipe march "The Hen's March" (no relation to the "to the midden" one) and a pipe tune "The Cockerel in the Creel". The story behind that one is that when the composer was a boy, his strict Presyterian mother tried to stop their cockerel from making un-Christian noises on the Sabbath by caging it in a lobster creel. The cockerel didn't think much of this and said so, the resulting sounds being the basis of the tune.

Subject: Lyr Add: FAST FOOD SONG (Fast Food Rockers)
From: The Villan
Date: 02 Dec 05 - 11:34 AM

Artist: Fast Food Rockers
Song: FAST FOOD SONG

Can I take your order please?

Let's eat to the beat

(Chorus)
A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut,
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut.
A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut,
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut.
McDonalds, McDonalds,
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut.
McDonalds, McDonalds,
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut.

You like it you love it
You know you really want it
The voices I hear
Whenever you're around

I want it I need it
Nothing else can beat it
Hot and spicy
Whenever I'm in town (mm mm)

Enticing exciting
Aroma so inviting
And when it hits
Me, I wanna take you home

Trust me you must see
Just what you're doing to me
Driving me crazy
Hungry to the bone

I think of you and lick my lips
You've got the taste I can't resist
Can't resist - can't resist
Let's eat to the beat

(Repeat Chorus)

Would you like that to go?

Any sauces?

You're so sweet and you're neat
You knock me off my two feet
You're chunky and hunky
I'm coming back for more (Hot Dog)

Your taste all embraces
I gotta sing your praises
Just savor the flavors
Waiting at your door

I think of you and lick my lips
You've got the taste I can't resist
Can't resist - can't resist
Let's eat to the beat

(Repeat Chorus)

Does anyone fancy a shake?
Shake
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Shake it to the left - Shake it to the right - Let's shake
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

I think of you and lick my lips
You've got the taste I can't resist
Can't resist - can't resist
Let's eat to the beat

(Repeat Chorus)

Subject: Lyr Add: ME COCK'S ME OWN
From: GEST
Date: 02 Dec 05 - 11:07 AM

Al, the Wee Little Drummer, mentioned the song Me Cock's Me Own, so I thought I'd add it a bit belatedly to this thread. GEST

Me Cock's Me Own

One Saturday afternoon I went out for a walk,
I went into the marketplace to hear the people talk;
A woman was selling birds, she had an awful stock,
I handed her a half a buck,
And she handed me a cock-a-doodle-do.

Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
So leave him alone and cock-a-doodle-do.

I put me cock under me coat and down the road I strolled,
I wouldn't gone too very long me cock began to grow;
A woman was walking by, she got an awful shock,
She said, young man, please button your coat,
'Cause I can see your cock-a-doodle-do.

Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
So leave him alone and cock-a-doodle-do.

I took me cock out for a row and the boat began to rock,
I fell into the water and the fish got hold of me cock-a-doodle-do.

Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
So leave him alone and cock-a-doodle-do.

I took me cock home and then I put him in the pen,
I put him in the pen alongside me sisters little black hen;
Jenny come running out, she got an awful shock,
She said me hen, me little black hen,
Is underneath your cock-a-doodle-do.

Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
So leave him alone and cock-a-doodle-do.

Well, fellers, I got to go, I got to be on me way,
The time that I have buggered around I could have been miles away;
But before I go there's something I'd like to know,
Is there any young lady present who,
Would like to see his cock-a-doodle-do?

Is nothing to do with you, me cock's me own;
So leave him alone and cock-a-doodle-do.

####.... Author unknown. Variant of a 19th century British traditional ....####

Recorded by Jenny and Josie Wilkinson of Point Rexton, Trinity Bay, NL (Now And Then, Ambassador Records, 1996). Also recorded by Chuck Simms from Grand Bank, NL (Campfire Songs, Atlantic Seabreeze Records, 2003)

Also recorded by Simon Ritchie and his So-Called Band (Melodeon Mania, X-Tradition TMM1911CD, 1998) who remembers this song being well known in country farrming pubs, but says it may have started life in the London music halls of the 1800s. Simon told GEST he learned it from Hubert 'Sugar' Bailey from Essex, England, who Simon recorded in the mid-1980s when 'Sugar' was in his sixties. Simon added bits from other singers such as the late Ted Chaplin of Suffolk and added a couple verses of his own through the folk process. Simon has heard the song referred to as The Comical Cock, but Me Cock's Me Own is his title for it. Simon and his band still sing it in the pub on a 'good' night (or day).

Archived at GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,Susan B
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 11:57 AM

What about the "Grand Upstanding Bantam Cock" sung by Jake Thakerey? Not certain whether this is one of his originals or a translation from a French song.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 10:28 AM

Should be a chicken verse in 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm'

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Dani
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 10:19 AM

De Colores, where you get to make the sounds of the whole chicken family!

Dani

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Zamboo
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:14 PM

And the best chicken song of all ... "Ghost Chickens in the Sky" by Whitt and Judy McKinney (The McKinney Washtub Two). Always a show-stopper. Done to the tune of you-know-what, with that great chorus singalong: "buck-buck-buck-BAWKKK, buck-buck-buck-BAWKKK, ghost chickens in the sky-y-y-y-y."

Subject: Lyr Add: CHICKEN IN BLACK (from Johnny Cash)
From: GUEST,Stormy
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 09:10 PM

Chicken in Black by Johnny Cash



CHICKEN IN BLACK
Recorded by Johnny Cash   

Recorded in Key of A w/change to Bb

CAPO: 5th FRET/KEY: A/PLAY: E: E/A/B7

INTRO: E/A/B7/E
[E] For two long years my head hurt bad
So a [A] doctor checked me an he shook his head
He said [B7] I'm sorry to tell you
But your body's outlived your brain [E]
He said I know this doctor in New York, son
And he'll [A] fix you right up with a brand new one
So the [B7] head doctor met me
When I stepped down off of the train. [E]

[E] He said we had this bank robber killed last night
His [A] body's shot but his brain's alright
I'll [B7] give you a transplant, boy
And you'll be OK [E]
I got my new brain in and I was feelin' great
I went [A] right back to Nashville with no headache
But something [B7] strange happened
When I walked in the bank one day. [E]

CHORUS
I said [A] stick 'em up ever'body I'm robbin' this place
Drop [E] all of your money in my guitar case
Don't [A] nobody move and don't nobody reach for that [B7] door
A [E] lady said, why you're Johnny Cash
I said [A] no ma'am, I'm the Manhattan Flash
And I [B7] am the best bank robber in New York. [E]

[E] Now the other night Roy Acuff called me
He said [A] John I'd like for you to do the Opry
So I [B7] went out on the stage, but I couldn't sing [E]
I got into a half a verse of 'I Walk The Line'
And [A] something snapped in this head of mine
I yelled [B7] stick 'em up -
Give me your money, your watches and rings. [E]

Change to F: F/Bb/C7

[F] Well, I called New York and talked to that brain quack
And said [Bb] Doc I gotta have my old brain back
He said I'm [C7] sorry there, Mr. Cash, but I can't do that [F]
He said I put your brain in a chicken last monday
He's [Bb] singing your songs and makin' lots of money
And I got him [C7] signed to a ten-year recording contract.[F]

[F] Now friends if you see me walkin' down the street
Remember [Bb] what you see ain't necessarily me
And if I [C7] try to hold you up, don't pay me no mind [F]
But when you got ten bucks that you can blow
You oughta [Bb] catch that Johnny Chicken show
He's doin' [C7] fairs and concert dates
All up and down the line. [F]

I said [Bb] stick 'em up ever'body I'm robbin' this place
Drop [F] all of your money in my guitar case
Don't [Bb] nobody move and don't nobody reach for that door [C7]
A [F] lady said, why you're Johnny Cash
I said [Bb] no ma'am, I'm the Manhattan Flash
And I [C7] am the best bank robber in New York. [F]

TAG: TALK:
Well, I don't pay any income tax...
You don't pay tax on money you steal...
You oughta catch that Johnny Chicken show...
Chicken In Black! hmmmmmmmm!

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Howard Kaplan
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 08:02 PM

There's also Malvina Reynolds' "The Little Red Hen"; the complete lyrics are already posted on another thread: thread.cfm?threadid=40846

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GLoux
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 08:19 AM

Here's an old thread about a chicken song that I'm still trying to decipher. The order of posts is screwed up, so don't get confused...

-Greg

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: weelittledrummer
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 05:55 AM

I seem to remeber an old song that went
Cock a doodle doo
Cock a doodle do
me cocks me own
so leave it alone
Its nothing to do with you

Ken Penny and his gang used to sing it at The Jolly Porter in Exeter way back in the 70's, I bet Tony Rose did.

also when I was a kid there was this novelty song

I'm a bow legged chicken
You're a knock kneed hen
Never been so happy, since I don't know when
Walk a with wiggle and a giggle and a squawk
Doing the Tenessee wig walk!

Somebody out there reassure me I was not the only one to witness these miracles.

all the best

al

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 05 - 04:41 AM

...and the little ones chewed on the bones oh ...

Subject: Lyr Add: THE ROOSTER FROM KITCHUSIS
From: GEST
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 09:50 PM

THE ROOSTER FROM KITCHUSIS

Come all ye good people I'll sing you a song,
Of men that were known the world over,
And made themselves famous in ballad and tale,
With their love for a roll in the clover.
You may think Casanova and Romeo, too,
Are the best that our history produces,
But the world's greatest lover was no man at all,
But a rooster that came from Kitchusis.

For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
And cock-a-lie-doodle and then,
When everyone else is knocked out on the floor,
Sure, I'll cock-a-lie-doodle again.

His owner would swear that he stood five feet tall,
With a comb like a red flannel blanket,
And a tail so grand that the peacocks of old,
Would be hard put to outrank it.
While his beady great eyes searched the earth and the skies,
For some creature to put to his uses,
Some virginal thing he would have for a fling,
When the dark of the night struck Kitchusis.

For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
And cock-a-lie-doodle and then,
When everyone else is knocked out on the floor,
Sure, I'll cock-a-lie-doodle again.

Now, when he was a baby, a bare six weeks old,
The first hen he tackled, is said,
Was dragged to the henhouse a Leg Horn White,
And came back a Rhode Island Red.
Then a cow had a calf with three legs and a half,
And horns that resembled a moose's,
Instead of a moo it yelled cock-a-lie-do,
Like that dirty old bird from Kitchusis.

For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
And cock-a-lie-doodle and then,
When everyone else is knocked out on the floor,
Sure, I'll cock-a-lie-doodle again.

Then the farmer's poor wife who went out for the eggs,
To the henhouse in all kinds of weather,
Had twins in the Spring that the neighbours all said,
Were born with a head full of feathers.
The doctor explained it was caused by some pills,
And gave out with other excuses,
But everyone knew it was time to get rid,
Of that dirty old bird from Kitchusis.

For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
And cock-a-lie-doodle and then,
When everyone else is knocked out on the floor,
Sure, I'll cock-a-lie-doodle again.

Now, Kitchusis it sits in Conception Bay,
Like a pearl in a jewellery store,
And the people still talk of that wonderful bird,
That lived in their town by the shore.
Forgot were the hard times they had in the past,
The hunger, and cold, and abuses,
But they'll always remember that rooster of old,
That dirty great bird from Kitchuses.

For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
And cock-a-lie-doodle and then,
When everyone else is knocked out on the floor,
Sure, I'll cock-a-lie-doodle again.

For it's cock-a-lie-doodle and cock-a-lie-diddle,
And cock-a-lie-doodle and then,
When everyone else is knocked out on the floor,
Sure, I'll cock-a-lie-doodle again.

Spoken:

Well, I tell you if you don't get that rooster outta here,
I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown,
We're gonna have to lock up grandmother.
Tell you what we could do is take that rooster,
And trade that rooster in on a dog and shoot the dog,
'Cause we just gotta get rid of that dirty old rooster!

####.... Dick Nolan (Welcome Aboard, Boot BTM 2008, Maritime Series, 1984) ....####

Archived at GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador

Subject: Lyr Add: BETSY BRENNAN'S BLUE HEN
From: GEST
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 09:39 PM

BETSY BRENNAN'S BLUE HEN
See also: Blue Hen

From the widow McKenny I bought for a penny,
To lay a few eggs when the berries are ripe;
But some dirty crawler from the hen house did haul her,
My beautiful little blue hen did swipe.

May his whiskers turn green when he eats a crubeen,
And may pork fat and beans nearly make him insane;
May two dogs and a crackie eat all his tobaccy.
The villain who stole my little blue hen.

Oh, this hen she had dozens of nephews and cousins,
The world 'round I would roam for her sake;
But some wicked savage, to grease his white cabbage,
Walked off with my hen and my beautiful drake.

May her stockings fall down when she goes out of town,
May the hair on her crown she can't bob it, and then;
May the girls from the Nor'ard stick pins in her forehead,
The villain who lifted my little blue hen.

I bought from Port Saunders that hen and two ganders,
But some dirty clown from my hen house did steal;
My beautiful chicken I would have for pickin',
On Christmas Day for to have a fine meal.

May the ravenous baste burst her blouse at the waist,
May she not get a taste of a dumplin' or cake;
May a man from Freshwater go back on her daughter,
That lifted my hen and my beautiful drake.

I would search the seas over from Boston to Dover,
To find out the rover and wouldn't stop then;
I would walk to Trepassey to collar the lassie,
Who pilfered my dear little beautiful hen.

May the measles and gout when he chance to go out,
On his double chin mouth, shove him down in the pen;
By the curse of Belleoram may he never stop roarin',
The villain who lifted my little blue hen.

May his pipe never smoke, may his tea pot be broke,
And to add to the joke, may his kettle not boil;
May he burst on cauld tay when he drinks any day,
And his ton of fox whiskers may soon go to soil.

May his clothes be in rags and his trousers bread bags,
May he stagger from jags if he goes 'round the lake;
And may he have bunions as big as small onions,
The scoundrel who lifted my beautiful drake.

####.... Johnny Burke (1851-1930) as published by Gerald S Doyle Ltd. in Old-Time Songs And Poetry Of Newfoundland (1927); 4th edition, p.76 (1966); 5th edition, p.58 (1978) ....####

From the Dictionary Of Newfoundland English:
Crubeen - Pickled pig's foot;
Crackie - Small, noisy mongrel dog.

Archived at GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From:
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 04:41 PM

So many songs about chickens, i truly am amazed,
thanks to all the peoples for their help, and i am working through the list slowly.
stay Cool, BergR

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: sharyn
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 03:00 PM

Carol Denney has a song called "Roll Chickens Roll."

The chorus is

"Roll, chickens, roll.
Fry, chickens, fry.
I hang around the deli
And it helps the time go by.
Roll, chickens, roll
Fry, chickens, fry
Nothing's been the same here
Since the day you said goodbye."

Subject: Lyr Add: CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICKEN (LAY
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 08:31 AM

Transcribed from the sound file at http://www.aardvarkmastering.com/edison.htm :

CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICK, CHICKEN (LAY A LITTLE EGG FOR ME)
Fred Holt, Thos. McGhee & Irving King
[As recorded by Earl Oliver's Jazz Babies on Edison Diamond Disk #51745-R.]

1. Now good old farmer Haystack (?) is the cleverest of men.
He cuts a rasher off a pig and then shouts to a hen:

CHORUS: Oh, chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, lay a little egg for me.
Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, I want one for my tea.
Oh, I haven't had an egg since Easter, and now it's half past three,
So, chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, lay a little egg for me.

2. Now, Rip Van Winkle woke up after twenty years or more.
He found a bird's nest in his beard and shouted out, "Oh, Lor'!"

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: weelittledrummer
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 11:59 PM

yes indeed The watersons - all the little chickens in your garden , or something like that from the pence and Spicey Ale album - Mike Waterson - or maybe my memoriy is leaking

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Celtaddict
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 01:31 AM

The talking chicken round has been mentioned on another thread.
Sandra Boynton (yes, the one who makes the hippo greeting cards) wrote a musical, never produced but available in a truly funny book-and-CD set, called "The Philadelphia Chickens."

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: open mike
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 01:10 AM

there is a great kids song called chickens for peace
it is by..Peter Alsop...see: www.peteralsop.com

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Artful Codger
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 05:01 PM

Might have been mentioned before: "Chicken on a Raft", recorded on the eponymous album of sea shanties by The Young Tradition.

The Watersons' "I Went to Market". Not just about chickens, but the hen and cock figure predominantly.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: curmudgeon
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 04:15 PM

The aforementioned Bob Webb chicken CD is available   here.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Steve-o
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 12:28 PM

There's a great blues song done by Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan called "Chicken-a-la-Blues".

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: Snuffy
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 08:53 AM

PICKIN' A CHICKEN (Paddy Roberts / Derek Bernfield / Garfield De Mortimer). Recorded by Eve Boswell 1955, and Jim Reeves - 1956.

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,Robin Madge
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 08:26 AM

I did write a tune called "Pullet and see" to go with "The hens march to the midden" when I was performing with Hen's Teeth.

Robin Madge

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Nov 05 - 08:09 AM

not a song, but a great fiddle tune

Jenny's Chickens

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/756


Very often played before Bonnie Kate, the pairing being popularised by Michael Coleman

Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 11:21 AM

My very favorite is Fishin' for Chickens, already mentioned as being in the DT. It was brought to my attention by our own Dharmabum, sung by him at a past Old Songs Festival. Great memory, that!

best,

bbc