Chicken

DESCRIPTION: "Chicken, oh, you chicken, went up in a balloon, Chicken, oh, you chicken, roost behind the moon.... Tell it all to the bad boy, chicken don't roost so high... When they see me coming All round this old plantation, There can't be a chicken seen."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: chickens bird technology
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 434, "Chicken" (1 short text)
Roud #11777
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Chicken Don't Roost Too High for Me" (subject)
File: Br434

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