Lyrics
“Will you take a walk with me, My little wife, today?
There’s barley in the barley field, And hayseed in the hay.”
“Thank you,” said the clucking hen, “I’ve something else to do;
I’m busy sitting on my eggs, I cannot walk with you.”
Cock-a-doodle-doo! Cock-a-doodle-doo!
“Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck,” Said the clucking hen :
“My little chicks will soon be hatched, I’ll think about it then.”
The clucking hen sat on her nest, She made it in the hay;
And warm and snug beneath her breast A dozen white eggs lay.
Cock-a-doodle-doo! Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Crack, crack, went all the eggs, Out dropped the chickens small.
“Cluck!” said the clucking hen, “At last I have you all.”
“Come along, my little chicks, I’ll take a walk with you.”
“Hello!” said the rooster bold, “Cock-a-doodle-doo!”
Cock-a-doodle-doo! Cock-a-doodle-doo!
See also
- songs about chickens
- ballads
- songs with repeated tones in the melody
- songs with dotted eighth note – sixteenth note patterns
- songs with fermatas
- source: The Child’s Own Music Book, The Largest Collection of Mothers’ and Children’s Songs, Musical Games and Piano Music Ever Published, Covering Completely All Phases of Child Life, Wier, 1918
Extras for Plus Members
- Song with chords (PDF)
- MIDI file
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