From the recording Blue Ridge Mountain Time: Songs from Wildacres
(2012): prompt: what do you do every day? with a flock of SoLaTiDoers doing their best imitation of chickens. Richard Putnam on piano.
Lyrics
layer pellet mill feed
and cantaloupe seeds
I’m aiming to please my flock
with corn on the cob
and scraps from the hog
its almost a job, my flock
rooster crowing before the dawn
cockle doodle doo
waking up his 35 hens
as well as me & you
they give me their eggs
I don’t have to beg
no words need to be said to my flock
if the water is stale
I bring fresh with a pail
and hay from the bale for my flock
I open the gate and out they rush
heading for the woods
it’s the only world that they know
and it sure looks good
scratching the earth
digging up turf
they’re lying in dirt, they’re my flock
at the end of the day
in the coop they will stay, I'm happy to say, they’re my flock
my flock
my flock