I try something here the other night

I'm sure gonna try some more

I'm gonna try the same thing here in this town

And I know I'll be a winner show

I put my sack right on my back

Walked out late one night

I fill't that sack full of fowl

And I did not have to fight

They was chicken chicken chicken

He can go up in the balloon

Chicken chicken

Chicken he can hide behind the moon

Chicken chicken

I ain't gonna let you be

I got a forty dollar warrant for the chicken tonight

He can't roost to high for me

I had no use for a chicken

Since one night will last spring

A settin' hen bit my partner

'Cause he stepped on her wing

The police come to see us 'bout it

And they slapped us all around

I never expect to rest contented now

'Til I eat every chicken in town

Yes chicken I love 'em too chicken

He can go up in the balloon

Chicken chicken

He can hide behind the moon

Chicken shoo

I ain't gonna let you be

I got a forty dollar warrant for the chicken tonight

He can't roost you high for me

I love my chicken indeed I do

To your hen roost I will go

If you got any fat put it settin' up high

It'll soon be mine you know

The chief police and the big bulldog

We're sleepin' side by side

I grabbed me a chicken by the wing

And through the crack I cry

I don't care if you don't never wake up

This fowl was in my hand

You don't stand no sure will catch a

This respectable roguish man

I'm not scared of your knives and gun

Much less that lazy pup

You can keep on sleepin' while the rogue is creepin'

We don't care if you don't ever wake up

Yes it's chicken chicken

He can go up in the balloon

Chicken chicken

He can hide behind the moon but I'll find him

Chicken shoo

I ain't gonna let you be

I got a forty dollar warrant for the chicken tonight

He can't roost too high for me

Well there's so much trouble in this land

I don't know how'r I feel

Look like all a my friends around me

Have learnt how to steal

When they steal a chicken

The chicken he'll holler just like a goat

When that chicken holler he'll twist his neck

And then shove him up under his coat

Then it's chicken chicken

He can go up in the balloon

Chicken chicken

He can hide behind the moon

Chicken shoo

I ain't gonna let you be

I got a forty dollar warrant for the chicken tonight

He can't roost too high for me