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Chicken Licken

 

Poor old Chicken Licken’s not the brightest little birdKeeps coming up with theories that are clearly quite absurdShe got hit by an acorn, and to laugh would be a sinBut our little feathered friend believes, the sky is falling inShe’s running round the farmyard telling everyone her tale“We must inform the government and do it without fail”Rounding up some other birds to join her on her questPicking just the fittest, disregarding all the restThe Goose and Turkey Lurkey led this brave deluded ringAs they marched into the night so they could go and tell the KingPoor old Chicken Lickens brain has really flown the coop
The way she carries on she’s going to end up in the soup
— shazbat, Jan 17, 2010

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Region, Country: Norfolk, UK, GBR

Favorite Poets: Kipling, T.S Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan and many more.

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Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 4 months ago

Thanks for being here, John.

Thanks for being here, John. Always adding your particular flavour to the *Chicken Soup for the Poet's Soul** we have cooking at Neo. ~A ** good name for a book.
shazbat

shazbat

16 years 4 months ago

Anna, when my two daughters

Anna, when my two daughters were very young they would insist that I read that I read Chicken Licken almost every bedtime, I still know the whole book off by heart as I must have read it over a thousand times, to be honest I bought all of my grandchildren a copy of the book, I only hope that they like it as much as my kids did/do John