Tennessee Wig-Walk

DESCRIPTION: "I'm a bold-headed chicken, with a hole in me head, I ain't been happy since I don't know when ..." Walk instructions for "Doin' the Tennisis Wig Walk." "You're the King and I'm the Queen, You're the one that stole my ring"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1978 (Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
KEYWORDS: derivative playparty royalty chickens bird | sparrow
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond),Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 128, "Tennessee Wig-Walk" (4 texts, 1 tune)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #201, "I'm a bow-legged chicken, I'm a knock-kneed sparow" (1 text)
Roud #19008
NOTES [31 words]: Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame: "'The Tennessee Wig-Walk', words by Norman Gimbel and music by Larry Coleman, 1953,...."
You can see the lyrics at the International Lyrics Playground site. - BS
Last updated in version 6.5
File: OpGa128

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