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Thread #168225 Message #4173160
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-May-23 - 08:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Chickens Are A-Crowin'
Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Chickens Are A-Crowin'
Here's #105 from Alan Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America. Lomax got it from Sharp, English Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians (1932), page 378
CHICKENS THEY ARE CROWIN'
The chickens they are crowin’, a-crowin’, a-crowin’, The chickens they are crowin’, for it is almost daylight.
My mother she will scold me, will scold me, will scold me, My mother she will scold me for stayin’ away all night.
My father he’ll uphold me, uphold me, uphold me, My father he’ll uphold me and say I done just right.
I won’t go home till mornin’, till mornin’, till mornin’, I won’t go home till mornin’, and I’ll stay with the girls all night.
The chickens they are crowin’, a-crowin’, a-crowin’, The chickens they are crowin’, for it is almost daylight.