Ray Stevens - Pickin' on the Chicken lyrics

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"

No, a chicken's life is not all
It's "cracked up to be"
And stop questioning my motives
About crossing the road
I don't know why I did it
Hey, I'm a chicken, yeah
Maybe I did it to show the
Possum it could be done
Or sing a duet with Willie Nelson
What difference does it make?
I crossed the road, okay? Get over it!
Bawk

And it's time to stop pickin' on the chicken
I mean, what a chicken ever did to you?
It's time to stop pickin' on the chicken
What a crock of cock-a doodle doo

"Don't count your chickens before
They hatch" and "don't
Put all your eggs in one basket"
And "don't put up a squawk" or "all
Your chickens might come home to roost"
People get "up with the chickens" or
"go to bed with the chickens"
Or are concerned about the "pecking order"
He's the "cock of the walk"
"he rules the roost"
"Broods" over problems like
"empty nest syndrome"
You know what makes me "madder
Than a wet hen"?
What does every strange thing from frog
Legs to rattlesnake taste like?
That's right, chicken
Finding some sort of reference that
Doesn't include a chicken
Is is is "as rare has hen's teeth"
Bawk, now you've got me doing it
I'll be so upset before long
I'll be "running around
Like a chicken with it's head cut off"
Okay, bawk, I can't believe I said that, bawk
Somebody stop me, bawk

"What came first, the chicken or the egg?"
Oh, "I feel like I'm walking on eggs"
I feel "hen-pecked"
Why did the punk rocker cross the road?
He was stapled to the chicken you know
"it ain't over 'til the fat
Chicken sings" and that's me
Is this any good or did I just "lay an egg"?
Bawk