Does anybody know the lyrics to a folksong regarding a rooster?
The story goes something like this: The farmer had a farm but the cows wouldn’t calve and the fruit trees wouldn’t bear and he and his wife didn’t have any children. Then he got a new rooster and the cows started giving eggnog and the trees started bearing eggplants and his wife started having eggheads.
I only heard it sung once a few years ago but several people in the group recognized it so I’m guessing it is moderately well known by people who know that sort of thing.
I would appreciate anyone who could point me to the words and music.
Thanks in advance – pluto.
“You have no choice but to be impressed.”
Tony Rothman and George Sudarshan Doubt and Certainty
AFAIK, it’s called “The Rooster Song”, and the lyrics, off the top of my head, go:
CHORUS:
And then that rooster… came into my yard
And caught that (a) right off her guard
We’re having (b), just like we use ta
Ever since that roosta
came into my yard