Barnyard Banter

Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)



Red Rooster
jumped out on the floor

With his main chick
Sweet Sally Sue Cluck

Struttin and strollin’
try’n not to get plucked

Billy Bantam said…
to his homeboy Fred

If that was my chick,
she’d dye her feathers blue

Back in the day,
if you were nobody’s flunky

You demonstrate
your playful side...

It's a sophisticated,
sporty'n spunky crew…

all out in the "Dew Drop Inn

dance'n" a rollicking romp
of barnyard banter...

that will knock
your bunny rabbit socks off

get you to wiggling and giggling
doin’ what you do

hollering out/stomping the ground
sayin’ to the beat something about

 "The roof is on fire,
let the “Mutha f’er Burn"

throwing your hands
up in the air

screaming and shouting
“like you just don’t care”

juke joint jaunting
funkified versions

of chicken little's
raunchiest nursery rhymes,

make you laugh yourself silly…
havin’ a really good time

rocking yourself
right out of your roost

strutting your stuff
like you've got to put out

a seven alarm fire
on your tail feathers

shaking it loose,
like a silly goose

as you put it down
into a bucket of ice water

to keep it cool just long enough

so that when they tone it down
at the end of the evening

if you're not too "fried"
to grinding ...with a nasty twitch,

 swayin’ side to side
 …laying it down you

and your Main chick

ride Sally
ride

C2



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Written on 2020

Submitted by Charles2 on September 16, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX BX CX DD BE XB XF XE C XA XG HE XI AC XJ HJ BX XX KX XX LI AX MM CA L CH FX FE B KF G
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,423
Words 305
Stanzas 31
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1

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