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Thread #30457   Message #390936
Posted By: GUEST,turk
05-Feb-01 - 07:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: extra verses to Hurt's Chicken?
Subject: extra verses to Hurt's Chicken?
I was singing my girlfriend the song Chicken that i learned from Mississippi John Hurt, and when i was done she said that she learned the song from one of her cousins when she was a little girl and added a few verses. The extra verses obviously dont go with the original song. I think they sound like verses that would be sung during jump rope, but really have no idea where they came from. Anyone have any clues? Here they are:

Rufus, rafus, Johnson brown
what'cha gonna do when the rent comes down
what'cha gonna say, what'cha gonna pay
what'cha gonna do on judgement day?

You know, I know, rent means dough
landlord throw you out in the snow
what'cha gonna say, what'cha gonna pay
what'cha gonna do on judgement day?