The Chicken Song

Album: Spitting Image (1986)
Charted: 1
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  • Its the time of year
    Now that Spring is in the air
    When those two wet gits with their girly curly hair
    Make another song for moronic holidays
    That nauseate-ate-ate
    In a million different ways
    From the shores of Spain
    To the coast of Southern France
    No matter where you hide
    You just can't escape this dance

    Hold a chicken in the air
    Stick a deckchair up your nose
    Buy a jumbo jet
    And then bury all your clothes
    Paint your left knee green
    Then extract your wisdom teeth
    Form a string quartet
    And pretend your name is Keith

    Skin yourself alive
    Learn to speak Arapahoe
    Climb inside a dog
    And behead an eskimo
    Eat a Renault Four with salami in your ears
    Casserole your gran
    Disembowel yourself with spears

    The disco is vibrating
    The sound is loud and grating
    Its truly nauseating
    Let's do the dance again

    Hold a chicken in the air
    Stick a deckchair up your nose
    Yes you'll hear this song in the holiday discos
    And there's no escape in the clubs or in the bars
    You would hear this song if you holidayed in Mars

    Skin yourself alive
    Learn to speak Arapahoe
    Climb inside a dog
    And behead an eskimo
    Now you've heard it once
    Your brain will spring a leak
    And though you hate this song
    You'll be humming it for weeks

    Hold a chicken in the air
    Stick a deckchair up your nose
    Buy a jumbo jet
    And then bury all your clothes
    La la la la la
    La la la la la la la
    La la la la la
    La la la la la la laaaaaaa Publisher: MUSIC SALES CORPORATION
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Comments: 3

  • Ash from WalesDo you know who the puppets were in the video? Watching with my mother & she can’t remember them all! TIA
  • Daniel from Winchester, OhI agree with you Landon this song is mind numbingly funny!!
  • Landon from Winchester, OhThis is insanely funny!
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