Companion verses to add to Bill D. verse to "Turkey In The Straw" that ferrara gave:


Well, I had a little chicken and it wouldn't lay an egg
So I poured hot chocolate up and down its leg
And the pour chicken cried and the poor chicken begged
And the poor little chicken laid an Easter Egg

Well I had a little chicken and it wouldn't lay an egg
So I poured some soy sauce up and down its leg
And the poor chicken cried and the poor chicken begged
And the poor little chicken laid an Egg Foo Young.

(collected in the field from three young American ladies my friends and I tried to pick up in Mexico City years ago, but that's another story....)

"Crow Black Chicken"-Originally recorded by The Leake County Revellers on a 78, it was later covered by The New Lost City Ramblers on the Folkways LP "Volume 4", and in a slide guitar based version by Ry Cooder on "Boomer's Story" on Reprise.

"Lock On The Chicken Coop Door" came from The shelor Family and was recorded on an LP by Half Shaved on "Downhome Homemade Old Time Music" on Flying Crow Records.

"Run Chicken Run"-an old Link Wray instrumental hit

Dave Swarbrick recorded the fiddle tune "The Hens March Through The Midden" a number of times.

NRBQ recorded an instrumental called "Trouble at the Henhouse"