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Thread #85872   Message #1593476
Posted By: Ferrara
29-Oct-05 - 09:46 PM
Thread Name: Songs about chickens
Subject: RE: Songs about chickens
(All the Little ) Chickens in the Garden, see DT for more info

"Turkey in the Straw" has chicken verses. My mother sang:

"Oh, we had a little chicken and she had a wooden leg,
'Twas the best little hen that ever laid an egg,
It was the finest little hen we ever had around the farm,
And another little drink wouldn't do me any harm."

Bill's family sang this verse to Turkey in the Straw:

"Oh, we had a little chicken and it had a wooden leg,
So we poured hot water up and down its leg,
Oh the little chicken hollered and the little chicken begged,
And the little chicken laid a hard boiled egg."