"I BET FOX TASTES LIKE CHICKEN" by Michael R. Clem ©2024

Performed at The Local 9Sept24, Charlottesville VA
video by Jehu Martin (JEHU-TV)
Lyrics
I bet Fox tastes like chicken
I really wouldn’t know firsthand
I figured that they are what they eat
When they’re robbing from the chicken farmer man
Sneaking-and-a-peekin in the henhouse
Prowling in the middle of the night
I bet Fox taste like chicken
I may be wrong but I bet I’m right
I bet that Moses was a redhead
Enhanced by a burning shrub
A tough guy to miss in the desert
As the Jews said “follow that bub”
When Heston played Moses in the movies
He wore a long shaggy wig that was white
But I bet that Moses was a redhead
I may be wrong but I bet I’m right
I got no time to look things up
I’m such a busy guy
You need not fact-check me
Why on Earth would I lie?
I bet Harry Truman sucked at checkers
His temper seemed far too short
The way he smirked at those who went for Dewey
He never seemed the sportsmanlike sort
He yelled at the guys who panned his daughter
When she screeched on her opening night
But I bet Harry Truman sucked at checkers
I may be wrong but I bet I’m right
I bet that Nome’s tough in winter
I’ve never been up that far
23 hours in the darkness
can’t go to Anchorage by car
When Johnny Horton sang about Alaska
he said it was a beautiful sight
In 2022 I saw it for myself
During Summer so there was lotsa light
I got no time to look things up
I’m such a busy guy
So you don’t know what taradiddle means
Guess what? Neither do I
I bet Barbara Eden had an innie
The navel that she could not show
When she danced open belly as a Genie
The network suits said NO
A shame about the stuffed shirt sensors
who kept her belly button out of sight
but I bet Barbara Eden had an innie
I may be wrong but I’m bet I’m right V
Why don’t we stand with the chickens?
Alone in a coop that's so cold?
Why is a fox so demanding
Maybe he’s just like the farmer too bold
chickens are hens who are mothers
and eventually Kentucky fried
The chicken and fox could be lovers
This is what it sounds like
When pigs cry
I bet Fox tastes like chicken
I really wouldn’t know first hand
I'm thinking while I’m plucking on a ditty
an oldie by Manfred Mann
I bet Fox tastes like chicken
Just my own dumb ass hunch
I’m wondering as I’m Grinnin and I’m Pickin
Where you wanna go for lunch?
(apologies and props to Prince)