My family has a set of words that they sing to the song "Chicken Reel" and I am trying to find out where they come from. I know they're at least sixty years old but I can't find anyone who knows this set of lyrics that isn't a family member.

As best as I can recall, the lyrics go like this…
"It's a trick to pick a chicken when they cackle in the coop,
some are laying, some are lying some are labeled 'chicken soup'
Take a dominicker rooster or a dominicker hen,
call it chicassee or fricassee, it's only chicken soup.

Cock a doodle, expect to see your chicken noodle,
out in the country, that's the style
cock a doodle, candy and mine apple strudel
sweeter than the kisses of my honey child

Well, the farmer's got a gobbler and a gander and a goose
and a mighty pretty daughter and he'd never turn her loose
If you like the farmer's daughter she's a chicken you can steal,
if you swing her while the fiddler plays a real chicken real

Cock a doodle, expect to see your chicken noodle,
out in the country, that's the style
cock a doodle, candy and mine apple strudel
sweeter than the kisses of my honey child"

If anyone has any information as to where these lyrics might have come from I would love to hear from you.