BAKE THAT CHICKEN PIE
As recorded by Uncle Dave Macon, 1927.

Whoa, if you want to see a darky made happy, I'll tell you what you do:
Slip over to the neighbor's yard, there take down a chicken or two.
Why, you slip around a dark night, when the chickens cannot see,
Want see that the bulldog's tied up, then sneak up to the tree,
For you take a pole just to knock 'im off, then slap him like a goat.
Well, if he hollers loudly, want to shove 'im up under your coat.

CHORUS: Bake that chicken pie, oh, put on lots of spice,
Oh, Lord how I'd like to have just a piece of that chicken pie.

Well, the pullets that flop their wings and crow, when the darky passes by,
Seems to say that they can't be caught, and there ain't no use for to try,
And worse than all that's happened, yes, did you ever hear the like before?
Whenever you go to travel you'll find, there's a lock on the chicken coop door. CHORUS

This country am a-gwine to the dogs at last, when the farmers sit and watch,
Big bull dog and a big steel trap in the watermelon patch,
And worse than all that's happened, yes, did you ever hear the like before?
Whenever you hear that er-er-er-er-er, there's a lock on the chicken coop door. CHORUS TWICE


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