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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.


Swan Song Blue by Bradypus
(Tune: 'Song Sung Blue', by Neil Diamond)

Spoken Introduction

Swans sing before they die. 'T were no bad thing
Should certain people die before they sing
This may be true. But it is also said
That chickens sing the sweetest when they're dead.

Swan song blue
Every chicken knows one
Swan song blue
Even if you're frozen

Me and you, we never knew
The song you get from a hen
But when the heat is on, you hear that song
You want to hear it again
You want to hear it again

Swan song blue
Nothing could be finer
Swan song blue
Sing it in A Minor

Funny thing, the chicken sings
It from the depth of her heart
But if you're making love and hear that song
The sound will rip you apart
The sound will rip you apart

Swan song blue
Nothing like you're used to
Swan song blue
From a headless rooster

It's absurd, to think a bird
That cackles all the day long
When it's lost its head, or when it's dead
It sings the sweetest of songs
It sings the sweetest of songs

Swan song blue
Piercing, sad and lonesome
Swan song blue
Every chicken knows one

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