# We Once Had a Chicken... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-once-had-a-chicken/544047 "2010-06-21T21:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-once-had-a-chicken/544047/1 "2010-06-21T21:19:15Z")
(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?? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-once-had-a-chicken/544047/2 "2010-06-21T21:26:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-once-had-a-chicken/544047/3 "2010-06-21T21:48:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-once-had-a-chicken/544047/4 "2010-06-22T18:16:46Z")
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](http://www.kidslist.uc.edu/gs/neil/nsong1_003.html), about 3/4 down. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-once-had-a-chicken/544047/5 "2010-06-22T19:02:22Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. 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 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-once-had-a-chicken/544047/6 "2010-06-22T19:09:57Z")
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!"