Nobody said these songs had to be about live chickens, did they?

From the sheet music at Mississippi State University:


AUNTIE SKINNER'S CHICKEN DINNER
"As introduced by Ruth Roye, Princess of Ragtime"
Words by Arthur Fields and Earl Carroll; music by Theodore Morse. ©1915.

1. I got an invitation
To see the celebration
Down at Auntie Skinner's big jubilee.
The picks from each plantation
Will give her some ovation
When they see the possum pie and fricassee.
Just smell them onions cookin'.
Just watch them darkies lookin'
In the pot to see what old Auntie's got.
Grab your best gal.
Invite another pal.
Ev'rybody's welcome there.

CHORUS: Come along (come along, come along) to Auntie Skinner's chicken dinner.
The pick who picks the wishbone will be the lucky winner
Of a grand new pair of homespun panties.
No other spinner spins a pair of panties like our Auntie's.
Come along (come along, come along), you little cotton pickers,
Picky picks from ev'rywhere.
Down at Auntie Skinner's chicken dinner, ev'rybody will be there.

2. Come on you folks, meander
In back of Alexander.
He will lead the marching and show the way.
They're down by Auntie's cabin,
And Lordy, how they're havin'
Such a time, 'cause it's Auntie's feedin' day.
Oh, what is that I'm smellin'?
It must be watermelon,
Or the ham that's sizzlin' in Auntie's pan.
Take your mother,
Sister and brother,
'Cause ev'rybody's welcome there.

[This song was recorded by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan in 1915. It has become popular with New Orleans traditional jazz bands, who sometimes perform it as a tune without words.]