# Need lyrics to a mundane song

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**Created:** [March 14, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-lyrics-to-a-mundane-song/14685 "2000-03-14T07:16:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-lyrics-to-a-mundane-song/14685/1 "2000-03-14T07:16:00Z")

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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.

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“You have no choice but to be impressed.”  
Tony Rothman and George Sudarshan  
_Doubt and Certainty_

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-lyrics-to-a-mundane-song/14685/2 "2000-03-14T07:41:00Z")

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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

The verses follow the pattern of:  
I had a _(a)_… that wouldn’t have _©_  
Oh I had a _(a)_… that wouldn’t have _©_  
Now I said “Honey,  
Now that ain’t funny.  
To have a _(a)_ that won’t have _©_”

Some of the substitutions are:  
(a) hen  
(b) eggs now  
© eggs

(a) wife  
(b) eggheads  
© kids

(a) waffle iron  
(b) Eggos  
© waffles

(a) Gas station  
(b) Eggson (Exxon)  
© gas

As you can tell, all the (b) are some sort of “egg” pun. And the thought of a rooster catching the wife off guard is kinda sick, if you ask me.

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**Author:** ![Pooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@Pooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooch)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-lyrics-to-a-mundane-song/14685/3 "2000-03-14T08:34:00Z")

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Shake Your Rooster

C’mon boys and girls, don’ be shy  
grab your rooster and make him fly

Grab 'em by the next, twirl 'em around  
fling 'em in the air, till he don’t make a sound

(chorus)

Shake shake shake  
Shake shake shake  
Skake your Rooster  
Shake your Rooster

(repeat)

If he gets away, catch 'em if you can  
pull out all his feathers, put 'em in a pan

If he doodle-doos, hit 'em in the head  
Get a new larm clock, da Roosters dead

(repeat chorus)