Chicken Lips

Words & Music:

Traditional (arr. Bruce Springsteen)

 

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Oh, when I was a little kid I never liked to eat,

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Mama'd put things on my plate, I'd dump them on her feet,

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But then one day she made this soup, I ate it all in bed,

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I asked her what she put in it, and this is what she said:

 

CHORUS:

"Chicken lips and lizard hips and alligator eyes.

Monkey legs and buzzard eggs and salamander thighs.

Rabbit ears and camel rears and tasty toe-nail pies.

Stir them all together, it's Mama's Soup Surprise!"

 

I went into the bathroom and stood beside the sink,

I said, "I'm feeling slightly ill, I think I'd like a drink."

Mama said "I've just the thing, I'll get it in a wink,

It's full of lots of protein, and vitamins I think."

 

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