Origins: Hens & chicken are flying over? Shiny O

Subject: Origins: Hens & chicken are flying over? Shiny O
From: skipy
Date: 09 Apr 10 - 08:13 PM

O/K I am out there singing again! However I don't like to sing a word that I do not know the meaning of & likewise a phrase.
Anyone one any idea about the line:-
"Hens and chickens are flying over" in Shiny O?
Skipy

Subject: RE: Origins: Hens & chicken are flying over? Shiny O
From: Noreen
Date: 09 Apr 10 - 09:05 PM

"The hen and the chickens" are probably stormy petrels - birds which are similar to the albatross but light brown in colour. Sailors associated them with high winds and called them "Mother Carey's chickens".

from Lyr Req: Shiny-O or Shiney-O