Áine's "Double Dawg Dare" has been doggin' me, since in my last song I included a past Challenge! that was NOT one of the three she dared us to use... Soooooo here's one with part 22 in it

(pronunciation guide: CO = "see-oh")!


GRAND OL' HEN
(Tune: "Anne Boleyn" by R.L. Weston and Bert Lee)

In the oven in Auckland, steam is thick;
The ghastly Grand Ol' Hen squawks, they do say.
The Grand Ol' Hen was once Kay Martin's chick
Until she hacked the neck that speaks today.
Oh yes, she did wring it hours ago
And it talks back in fright to tell her so

With its head tucked underneath its wing
It squawks with all its power
With its head tucked underneath its wing
At the dinner hour.

It calls to haunt Kay Martin, It screams, giving her the bird.
Gadzooks, it's crowing to tell her off for filling it, she's heard.
And just in case the chicken doesn't get the final word,
It has its head tucked underneath its wing.

Off in Fruita, CO, there is a spread
Where Mike, the bantam rooster, loudly crew.
The farmer's carving knife once cut its head
When up came Mike, alive, to spoil the stew.
It fluffed its tail up with a gurgling "gloop."
Lloyd Olsen cried, "You won't go in my soup

"With your head tucked underneath your wing
You squawk with all your power
With your head tucked underneath your wing
At the dinner hour."

Mike toured the endless towns and states; for months the cock lived on.
It often tried to peck, poor thing, although its beak was gone.
T'was awfully, awfully awkward for the bird to sire spawn
With its head tucked underneath its wing.