Chicken | Hayes Carll
🎵 Chicken | Hayes Carll 🎵 - Length: 0:5:21
Chicken - Written by Hayes Carll / Ray Wylie Hubbard
Recorded Live June 21, 2025
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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


