Traditional
G
As I was a-going on down the road
D
with a two-horse wagon and a four-horse load,
G
I cracked the whip and the lead horse sprung
D G
and I said goodbye to the wagon tongue.
Chorus
G
Turkey in the straw, haw, haw, haw.
C
Turkey in the hay, hey hey hey.
G
Pick 'em up, shake 'em up, anyway at all
D G
and hit up a tune called turkey in the straw.
I had an old chicken and she wouldn't lay an egg
so I poured hot water on her left hind leg
and she wiggled and she waggled and she jiggled all the day
and the goldurned chicken laid a hardboiled egg.
Well I came to the river and I couldn't get across
so I paid five dollars for an old blind hoss.
Well he wouldn't go ahead and he wouldn't stand still
so he went up and down like an old sawmill.
