Thursday, July 14, 2016

Live Chickens- a lyrical challenge

I suggested to Mike that "Live Chickens" would be a great title for an instrumental. His response was: "What? Not up to writing lyrics about Chickens?"  Oooooo- a challenge.   These aren't finished yet and haven't figured out how they will fit to music but here is a start:

LIVE CHICKENS Lyrics: Datta 6/30/2016

1) I've seen a lot of dead possums on the roadside
Tons of squirrels and skunks don't make it out alive
An occasional turtle and one time a goat
Who got out of the gate and that's all she wrote

2) You always have to look as you drive by
And wonder what it was when it was alive
Then you start joking- why did the chicken cross the road
Take a good look buddy, that's no chicken- that's a toad.


X) You can joke about why they cross the road
But chickens survive
If they are crossing the road for any reason
They must make it out alive
With their little wings, tiny feet
And beady eyes.
If they are crossing the road
Chickens survive.


3) Yeah I've seen them frozen in the grocery store and unfrozen on the farm
I know they don't all live long lives and do come to harm.
Don't think it's from smoking cigarettes or drinking beer
But chickens don't make it too long around here

4) It isn't from riding without helmets on their motor bikes
Or not from staying up too late and picking chicken fights
Their lives may be short but one thing you should know
Chickens don't drop dead from crossing the road

If they are crossing the road- they must make it out alive
If they are crossing the road- chickens survive.