madness that chicken song?
what does it even mean?
It's an old US Fiddle tune for square dancing, reels and such with a nonsense verse and chorus in the tradition of 'Old Dan Tucker' and the like:
I'm a bow-legged chicken,
I'm a knock-kneed hen
Never been so happy since
I don't know when
I walk with a wiggle
and giggle and a squawk
Doing the Tennessee wig walk.
Hear a tune on a fiddle
on a hard wood floor
Though I'm broke and weary
and my back is sore
I walk with a wiggle
and giggle and a squawk
Doing the Tennessee wig walk.
Put your toes together;
your knees apart
Bend you back;
get ready to start
Flap your elbows just for luck
Then you wiggle and you waddle
like a baby duck.
Won't you dance with me honey;
tap your toes and fly
then we'll always be together;
side by side
We walk with wiggle
and a giggle and a squawk
Doing the Tennessee wig walk.
Walk with a wiggle;
wiggle with walk
you're doing the Tennessee wig walk.
Doing the Tennessee wig walk.
Doing the Tennessee wig walk.