From YouTube:


ALL BIRDS LOOK LIKE CHICKENS TO ME
Words and music by Irving Jones, ©1899.
As recorded by Will F. Denny on an Edison cylinder, ca. 1902.

[1] Sam Green's an educated fowlist, well versed in chickenhood.
When he can eat a chicken meal, his appetite is good.
He eats fried chicken ev'ry meal, has chicken salad for lunch.
He never buys a solitary hen, for he gets them by the bunch.
And when he sees a mockingbird, that coon will loud exclaim:
"That bird is a talkin' hen, although she's changed her name."
He also says a canary bird is a chicken that's learned to sing,
And if you contradict him, this argument he'll spring:

[CHORUS] "All birds look like chickens to me.
Crows look like black hens, you see.
Some birds are raised up for a prize,
But a knife and fork make 'em all one size.
People say quails ain't chickens, you see,
But they look like Lilliputian hens to me.
They are eagles and owls and other fowls,
But they look like chickens to me."

[2] Sam Green went over to a bird show; all nations of birds he's seen,
And when he spied a parrot, he said: "That hen's painted green!"
And when he saw a wild duck, that coon's heart loud did beat.
He said: "That hen has got bow legs and a pair of ragtime feet!"
But when he saw a peacock, that coon could hardly talk.
He says: "That is a coon-hen that's learned how to cakewalk."
He also said that an ostrich was a chicken that's overgrown,
And as he started homeward, these words he loud did moan: [CHORUS]


[Another recording, also on YouTube was made by Sweet Papa Stovepipe (real name: McKinley Peebles) in 1926. The chorus is clearly derived from the above, but the verses are quite different. Parts are barely decipherable.]