Chicken | Hayes Carll

🎵 Chicken | Hayes Carll 🎵 - Length: 0:5:21

Chicken - Written by Hayes Carll / Ray Wylie Hubbard Recorded Live June 21, 2025 Live from Norfolk Street is an on-going concert series recorded live at McGonigel's Mucky Duck in Houston, Texas. Our live-streamed concert series is listener supported. For access to our catalog of full length shows, extras, encores, and interviews, become a contributing member at: https://livefromnorfolkstreet.com/ Lyrics: I got chickens in my front yard What they do is scratch and peck I got chickens in my front yard What they do is scratch and they peck Come supper time I'll go out there Find me one and wring its neck It ain't meanness, y'all It's just hungry's what I am It ain't meanness, y'all It's just hungry's what I am There ain't nothin' in this world Better than fried chicken, yes ma'am And if it rains today Oh, the backyard'll turn to mud If it rains today Oh, the backyard'll turn to mud If it don't, it won't Either way, won't rile my blood I'm sittin' on the porch swing Watchin' the sky and fiddlin' wood I'm sittin' on the porch swing Watchin' the sky and fiddlin' wood There's an old crow on the clothesline Countin' his toes and feelin' good I got chickens in my front yard What they do is scratch and peck I got chickens in my front yard What they do is scratch and peck Come supper time I'll go out there Find me one and wring its neck It ain't meanness, y'all It's just hungry's what I am