Downtown Chicken, Hey!

[Diomedes]

Okay music heads, I got a couple little projects going...help me out if you feel like it:

I'm trying to compile a set of songs with 'chicken' in them.  In the title, in the lyrics, in the band name, whichever.

I've got a pretty comprehensive list going, but if you know a song ain't on the following list, lemme know (or even better, send me the song):

• I have
  Detroit Cobras - Shout Bamalama
  Steve Goodman - Chicken Cordon Bleus
  Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town
  Felice Brothers - Run Chicken Run, possibly Chicken Wire
  Scott H. Biram - Downtown Chicken
  John Lee Hooker - Bottle Up and Go
  Bob Dylan & The Band - Don't Ya Tell Henry.  Lo and Behold.
  Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues
  Radar Bros. - Chickens
  Cake - Fashion Nugget
  White Zombie - El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama
  Loose Fur - Hey Chicken
  Raconteurs - Consoler of the Lonely (intro Daddy will you tell me the story about the chicken)
  Radiohead  - Paranoid Android
  Rudie can't fail - the Clash
  Ry Cooder - Crow Black Chicken
  Beastie Boys - Slow Ride, Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun, Shake Your Rump, Sounds of Science, Hold It Now Hit It,
  Jethro Tull - Mother Goose
  A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
  Clutch - Animal Farm
  MIA - Boyz
  Red Hot Chili Pepers - Apache Rose Peacock
  Big Black - The Power of Independent Trucking
  Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down, Dirty 'Ol Egg Sucking Dog, Like the 309, The Man Comes Around


• I need better versions of these:
  The Doors -- Back Door Man (version I have skips)
  Ramones - I just want to have something to do (cuts off short)
  Byrds - I'm a Lover of the Bayou (cuts off short, poor sound quality.)



• need to get/candidates for final set
  Willie Nelson - Sunday Morning Coming Down
  Les Paul - Chicken Reel
  James Brown- the chicken
  Mississippi John Hurt - The chicken
  Link Wray - Run Chicken Run
  John Lee Hooker - Chicken and Gravy
  Sly and the Family Stone - Chicken
  Ian Drury and the Blockheads - Chicken
  Ike and Tina - Chicken
  Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
  Cibo matto - Know your Chicken
  King Missile - Chickens
  A Tribe Called Quest - Ham N' Eggs
  The Beatiful South - I ain't Never Lost a Chicken to a Fox
  Woody Guthrie - Talkin' Blues
  Clutch - Green Buckets
  Bob Mould - Whichever Way the Wind Blows
  Albert Collins - Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
  MIA - Lovalot
  Stevie Wonder - I Was Made to Love Her
  Elvis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
  Modest Mouse - The Stars are Projectors, The fruit that ate itself
  Jethro Tull - Piece of Cake
  Carol King - chicken soup with rice
  The Bees - chicken payback
  Zac Brown Band - chicken fried, sic' 'em on a chicken
  Bonnie Raitt - Longing in their Hearts
  Drive By truckers - 3 dimes down -
  Cool Kids - What up man
  Dixie Chicks - voice inside my head
  Dead Kennedys - stars and stripes of corruption
  Dr. Dog - Die die die
  Cracker - How Can I live Without You
  Fairport Convention - angel delight
  The Coup - Nowalaters
  from West Side Story / Bernstein - Jet Song
  Gladys Knight - Grandma's hands
  Rickie Lee Jones - Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking
  Lupe Fiasco - Dumb it Down
  Fishbone - Sourpuss
  

I know that ICP has a bunch of songs that fit but they suck.  Same for Jimmie's Chicken Shack.  I'm also not interested in most rap, because most rap farging sucks, but if it's good, by all means lemme know.



Also, I'm drumming up a set of songs that would be suitable for children, but which were not necessarily recorded for them.  Songs like Louden Wainright III's
"Dead Skunk," Arlo Guthrie's
"Motorcycle Song,"  or the Trashmen's
"Surfin' Bird." Any suggestions would be welcome.

[QB Eagles]

Here's a link to
The Magnetic Fields - A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off .

Buckethead has an album called Enter the Chicken and innumerable chicken references throughout his career. Not a lot of lyrics in his shtein though. Here's an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ_ngr0yLBw

All I got off the top of my head.

[General_Failure]

Here's a link that should help you fill out your list a little more.

[ice grillin you]

classic song and it comes complete with a fantastic sting sample for your white ass


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0UEuW_cx1c

diamonds i flaunt it...chickenheads flock i lace em
fried broiled with basil...taste em...crack the legs
way out of formation...its horizontal how i have em
fargin me in the benz wagon
can it be vanity from last dragon
grab your gun its on though
shtein is grimy...real stillupfronts moms buck in broad daylight
with the broke mac it wont spray right
dont give a farg who they hit...as long as the dramas lit
yo...overnight thugs....bug cause they aint promised shtein
hungry ass hooligans stay on that piranha shtein

[Diomedes]

sweet, thanks folks...

[MMH]

SCOTS:

8-piece Box

Fried Chicken and Gasoline

[Diomedes]

Here's a link that should help you fill out your list a little more.

How did I miss this site when I was googling lyrics?  Great site, thanks.

[Diomedes]

SCOTS:

8-piece Box

Fried Chicken and Gasoline

I've seen them a couple times and barely escaped being hit by fried chicken thrown from the stage, but I couldn't find any references to chicken in the tracks I have.  I knew there had to be some in their catalog somewhere.  Thank you. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

Little Feat's Dixie Chicken came to mind right away.

And how about Backdoor Man? ("I eat more chicken than any man's ever seen.") Go with the original Willie Dixon version, not the Doors version.

[Diomedes]

Both songs came to me immediately as well, and are on my list already.  It had not occured to me to get the Willie Dixon version of "Back Door Man" however...great idea.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Bah...sorry. I had "match case" checked on Firefox, so I missed it on your list. I'll keep my thinking cap on.

[MMH]

SCOTS:

8-piece Box

Fried Chicken and Gasoline

I've seen them a couple times and barely escaped being hit by fried chicken thrown from the stage, but I couldn't find any references to chicken in the tracks I have.  I knew there had to be some in their catalog somewhere.  Thank you. 

Yeah they put on a great show.  8-Piece Box is when they throw chicken (as you can see in the video)

[SD]

I love me some Southern Culture on the Skids. Saw them 15 years ago, great show.

[mussa]

I got the Bees Chicken Payback & Dr. Dog songs. PM me your email addy.

[Diomedes]

GF's link is money.

How did Springsteen's "Atlantic City" not pop into your head first thing, igy?  I mean Christ, he's your boy, and the words "chicken" and "Philly" are featured in the first couplet of the song