The Chicken Dance Song Revisited.
Oct. 10th, 2012 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyI don't know why (given how liberal I am with what I let my kids watch, and how generally okay I am with other people using bad words, even around my kids), but something about having the words to The Chicken Dance Song being taught to nearly twenty 5, 6, and 7 year old 4-H Cloverbuds, seemed very inappropriate to me.
"I don't want to be a chicken, I don't want to be a duck, so I shake my butt." were the words. Last year the Cloverbuds learned the dance without words, just sound effects. I liked that better.
H, realizing that duck and butt aren't even a proper rhyme and aware of my oddly offended sensibilities, proceeded to filk it for me.
"If you wanna be a chicken, or you wanna be a whale, then shake your tail."
And, from the perspective of a magic pixie or nymph who can change people into animals, "You don't wanna be a chicken, you don't wanna to be a duck, don't push your luck."
"I don't want to be a chicken, I don't want to be a duck, so I shake my butt." were the words. Last year the Cloverbuds learned the dance without words, just sound effects. I liked that better.
H, realizing that duck and butt aren't even a proper rhyme and aware of my oddly offended sensibilities, proceeded to filk it for me.
"If you wanna be a chicken, or you wanna be a whale, then shake your tail."
And, from the perspective of a magic pixie or nymph who can change people into animals, "You don't wanna be a chicken, you don't wanna to be a duck, don't push your luck."
