THE SPELLING BEE by Septimus Winner (1875). This was used in a Three Stooges film called “Swingin’ the Alphabet.”

DAT'S DE WAY TO SPELL CHICKEN by Sidney L. Perrin and Bob Slater (1902). This song gave rise to variations such as C-H-I-C-K-E-N, performed by Fiddlin’ Doc, Greenbriar Boys, Jeff Warner & Jeff Davis, Kathy Kalleck, McGee Brothers, Michelle Shocked, Mississippi John Hurt, Paul and Win Grace, Red Clay Ramblers, and possibly others. The chorus of this song has been so often medleyed with the chorus of WHAT YOU GOIN' TO DO WHEN THE RENT COMES 'ROUND? (which begins “Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown”) that many people take them to be the same song.