(To the tune of “Turkey in the Straw”)
Well, we once had a chicken that wouldn’t lay an egg
So we poured hot water up and down his leg
Well, the little chicken pleaded and the little chicken begged
And the little chicken laid a hard-boiled egg!
Got any others like this??
I seem to remember some more verses…
Well, we once had a chicken that wouldn’t lay an egg
So we ran a puppy up and down his leg
Well, the little chicken cried and the little chicken begged
And the gosh-darned chicken laid a pooched egg!
That’s the only one I remember off the top of my head.
To the tune of Reuben and Rachel:
I have a dog his name is Fido,
I have raised him from a pup,
He can stand up on his hind legs,
If you hold his front legs up.
We had a chicken, no eggs would it lay.
We had a chicken, no eggs would it lay.
Pa said, “Honey, we’re losing money,
And that ain’t funny.”
No eggs would it lay.
One day a rooster came in our yard
And caught that chicken right off its guard.
It’s laying eggs now, just like it used to
Ever since that rooster came in our yard.
It’s laying eggs now, just like it used to
Ever since that rooster came in our yard.
More verses here, about 3/4 down.
I thought that was to the tune of “I have a dog his name is Fido”. I’ve never heard of Reuben and Rachel, and had no clue that the Fido song was set to the tune of another song.
Lute Skywatcher, my sister and I spent an entire summer making up new verses to that rooster song. But I suspect that we used a different tune, since the way you posted it wouldn’t scan the same way. Ours was:
There was a chicken, who wouldn’t lay any eggs,
There was a chicken, who wouldn’t lay any eggs,
My wife said “Honey, we’re losing money
Because that chicken, won’t lay any eggs”
Until the rooster, came to our yard
And knocked that chicken right off its guard
It’s laying eggs now, just like it used to
It’s laying eggs now, thanks to the rooster
No chickens, but same tune:
"Well, I ran around the corner and I ran around the block
And I ran right in to the donut shop.
And I picked up a donut and I wiped off the grease
And I handed the lady a 5-cent piece.
Well, she looked at the nickel and she looked at me
And she said, ‘This nickel is no good you see:
It’s got a hole in the middle and it goes right through!’
And I said, 'There’s a hole in the donut, too!
Thanks for the donut, bye now!"