Pickin’ on the Chicken Ray Stevens

You know, if a chicken could talk
He might say something like this

Why's everybody pickin' on the chicken?
What did a chicken ever do to you?
Why's everybody pickin' on the chicken?
What a crock of cock-a-doodle-doo, bawk

Now I'm not the kinda bird to squawk
But seems like these days, folks can't talk
Without somehow slandering the chicken's name
Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck
But bigotry and discrimination
Dominate the syntax of this whole nation
It's enough to drive a dumb dominecker insane
They say "flew the coop" when a thief's departed
And if he's lacking courage, he's "chicken-hearted"
And if he messes up, "he's got egg on his face"
He'll work for "chicken feed" or "hatch a scheme"
Something's "stuck in his craw", see what I mean?
Demeaning references to chickens are commonplace

"Bird brain", "dumb cluck", "no spring chicken", "strut your stuff"
"Nest egg", "bad egg", "shake your tail feather", "cocky" and such
"Laid an egg", "in a stew", I don't know what a chicken can do
You know being a chicken in this environment is "nothing to crow about"