Gathering Eggs
Copyrighted by:  Verne Garrison October 28, 2011, Valley Park, Mo
Banjo tuned E, Capo 2, Key of:  D

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Gathering eggs when I was a child,
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Red-brown Rhode Island Reds
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White leghorns, flighty and wild
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The old wooden hen-house their bed

Always welcomed by their constant cackle
Announcing that another egg had been laid
I'd slip my hand under their warm body
Put an egg in the basket, fresh made

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Fry those eggs in hot bacon grease
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Pinch in a little flour to brown and stir
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Blind-fold those yolks as you please
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Dip in with home made bread, yes sir

Brown or white eggs always were a choice
I liked the brown ones the best
Seemed to have darker sweet gold yolks
I can still hear their cackling yet

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