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Chicken Don't Roost Too High

by Grandpa Jones

on Sings Real Folk Songs (1963)

Done a little something the other night, that I never had done before
I'm gonna do it again tonight and the people will be so
With a great big knapsack on my back I'm going out to make a steal
I'll get that sack full of dandy chicks and you know just how I feel

Oh chicken, chicken
You go up in a balloon
Chicken, oh chicken, may you roost behind the moon
Chicken, oh chicken, I will never let you be
A hundred dollar bill for the chicken that will roost too high for me

Chicken you call me a stealing man when you know I don't like that
Pick up the things you knocking over well it isn't very fair
Now he's got a older brother one of them old shang-hi
I'll meet them on the chicken route tomorrow night in case you don't roost too high

Oh chicken, chicken
You go up in a balloon
Chicken, oh chicken, may you roost behind the moon
Chicken, oh chicken, I will never let you be
A hundred dollar bill for the chicken that will roost too high for me

Chicken it won't do you no good to go up in a aeroplane
And sail around by the light of the moon when we took in your wing
You might as well stay on the ground for I get you by and by
I'll have you in my sack but don't think you're big enough to fry

Oh chicken, chicken
You go up in a balloon
Chicken, oh chicken, may you roost behind the moon
Chicken, oh chicken, I will never let you be
A hundred dollar bill for the chicken that will roost too high for me