Chicken Necks And Wings
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We had family get-togethers back when I was just a lad
We'd finish the milking early and we'd all dress in the best we had
After mama fried the chicken and we'd combed and brushed our hair
We'd load up in that truck and off to granny's house we would tear
Over at granny's place there wasn't no room for me to stand
'Cause folks were laughing loud slapping backs and shaking hands
So I'd slip off with my cousins 'til it's time to say the grace
When Uncle Ike would say that blessing
Us children would take our place
We sat at the second table eating chicken legs and wings
A leftover dab of gravy and the fatback from the beans
Fresh peach cobbler without peaches, melted ice cream from the churn
Wasn't very much to choose from once them grownups had their turn
I sat at a folding table on a black piano stool
And I could hear them grownups talking
Way off in there in the other room
The ladies are swapping gossip between each bite and happy sigh
Uncle Bill would tell a joke and they'd just laugh 'til they cried
Old Aunt Myrtle's always complaining 'bout them new shoes on her feet
And the men's always bragging 'bout the good things they had to eat
How their plates all needed sideboards '
Cause the food was piled so high
How they'd give fifty dollars for a gizzard or thigh
We sat at the second table eating chicken legs and wings
A leftover dab of gravy and the fatback from the beans
Fresh peach cobbler without peaches, melted ice cream from the churn
Wasn't very much to choose from once them grownups had their turn
Wasn't very much to choose from once them grownups had their turn