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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Song Challenge:
Chicken Of The Living Dead? -- Kay Martin, a secretary to a New Zealand MP, got the fright of her life a few weeks ago.
According to the Auckland Sunday Star, she and a friend were chatting over a drink when they heard a chicken squawking.
The bird sounded in some distress, so they went outside to investigate, thinking perhaps that it had escaped from one of the
neighbors. But, there were no chickens anywhere. Then Martin realized with horror that the sound was coming
from her own kitchen - coming, in fact, from the oven, where she had put a chicken in to roast half an hour earlier.
"It was as if it was shrieking at me from its grave," she says. "It was so bizarre I just froze." As they
approached the oven, the squawking reached a crescendo. They took the tray out, and as the chicken began to cool,
the squawking died away. Martin chopped the neck off and threw it in the sink. She noticed that the vocal
chords were intact. "Steam was coming up the neck from the stuffing," says Martin, and this had caused the dead bird
to squawk. She has not cooked chicken since. P.S. TO ALL CHALLENGE!RS: If any of you are looking to qualify for the 'Two-Fer' Award (or better), check out SONG CHALLENGE! Part 8, Part 22, and Part 42 on the Song Challenge!s Past page, and see how you can work this Challenge! and one or more of these past hoo-haws into a song . . . It's a Double Dawg Dare, so ya can't turn it down! '-) -- Á.
Food for Thought (Chickens and the Creative Process) by Ed I. Son (aka RobDale)
RobDale's Comments: My most humble contribution. (Song Challenge!s 8, 42 and 22 are included in verses 1-3, respectively). I haven't really written the melody. but think of traditional English folk music performed with traditional Chinese instruments. Or Vice versa. I am not unhappy with this but I do regret not being able to work in the French Attack Monkeys!
Mrs. Watt put Violet in the pot
Steam set the chicken to a-squawkin'
Said Mister Watt to Mrs. Watt
Baby! Now! you're talkin'
I really think this thing you got
Will sound throughout the nation
A whistle for my engine (this half of the line sung really fast and steam enginey) will fill the slot
This squawk's the inspiration
Said an old Chinese, I ask you please
To send us some protection
The locust disease is on the breeze
So send us a selection
Of Ducks and Chickens and maybe geese
The swarm needs a correction
No word to the Emperor said
No palms to grease. You see.
But Mike runnin round without his head
Inspired bureaucracy
So next time in a Queue you tread
or hear a whistle scree!
Remember, chickens once thought dead
Inspire continuously
Copyright 2001 Rob Dale