Of course, not all church camps would agree that torturing animals is great fun, but this one apparently does. What follows is a song which was sent by a young woman. Her summer church camp leaders taught it to over 300 girls:
Well, I had a little chicken that wouldn’t lay an egg
So I poured hot water up and down it’s leg.
Oh the little chicken cried
And the little chicken begged
And the little chicken laid a hard boiled egg.
Do-wop Do-wop, some chicken
Do-wop Do-wop, some egg
Do-wop Do-wop, some chicken
And the little chicken laid a hard boiled egg.
Well, I had a little chicken that wouldn’t lay an egg
So I poured hot oil up and down it’s leg.
Oh the little chicken cried
And the little chicken begged
And the little chicken laid a fried egg.
Do-wop Do-wop, some chicken
Do-wop Do-wop, some egg
Do-wop Do-wop, some chicken
And the little chicken laid a fried egg.
Well, I had a little chicken that wouldn’t lay an egg
So I poured hot chocolate up and down it’s leg.
Oh the little chicken cried
And the little chicken begged
And the little chicken laid a cadberry egg.
Do-wop Do-wop, some chicken
Do-wop Do-wop, some egg
Do-wop Do-wop, some chicken
And the little chicken laid a cadberry egg.
Well, I had a little chicken
And she wouldn’t lay an egg
So I poured gun powder all around her leg
And the little chicken hollered and the little chicken begged
And the gosh darn chicken laid a hand grenade!
Do-wop Do-wop, some chicken
Do-wop Do-wop, some egg
Do-wop Do-wop, some chicken
And the little chicken laid a hand grenade!
The chicken is one of the animals most forgotten, it seems, by almost everyone. Folks who extend great compassion to dogs and cats and even cows often find the chicken to be laughably unworthy of respect, let alone kindness or care. That is why any and all support extended to chickens is especially appreciated by all of us who believe justice is for all of us, not just some of us.
Betty
http://adoptpet.info
And yeah, Gary, the power of the human mind is, well, mind-boggling. If only we could use that power to disentangle our own destructive natures. Well, we COULD do that. Whether or not we will choose to do so, in a critical-mass sort of way, remains to be seen….
Not until we view the suffering of other animals as equally intolerable as our own will we live on this planet in peace with anyone else.
if i am a child and this song was being presented by someone who was offended by it, i would probably pick up on that and not find it silly and fun. children are perceptive. and they are also smart. just because it says somethinig about pouring hot water on a chickens leg, that doesn’t necessarily mean they will do it. and just because you may be offended by it, it doesn’t mean they are, but they will pick up that anxiety from you, and may turn it into fear (and guilt that they should be feeling bad about something when they actually don’t).