pickin' on the chicken

ray stevens

you know

if a chicken could talk

he might say something like this

why's everybody pickin' on the chicken?

what did a chicken ever do to you?

why's everybody pickin' on the chicken?

what a crock of cockadoodle doo. baaaawwk

now i'm not the kinda' of bird to squawk

but seems these days that folks can't tawwwwlk

without somehow slandering the chickens name. buk buk buk buk buk

but bigotry and discrimination

dominate the syntax of this whole nation

it's enough to drive a dumb dominecker insane

they say flew the coop" when a thief's departed