Played AABB usually in the key of G or in D
Sing AB (except for the doughnut shop which is AAB)

A: G / / / | / / D / | G / / / | / / D G
B: G / / / | C / / / | G / / / | / / D G

As I was a-going on down the road
with a two-horse wagon and a four-horse load,
I cracked the whip and the lead horse sprung
and I said goodbye to the wagon tongue.

Turkey in the straw, haw, haw, haw.
Turkey in the hay, hey hey hey.
Pick 'em up, shake 'em up, anyway at all
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.

I went downtown to the doughnut shop
and I laid a nickel on the countertop
and I pulled three doughnuts out of the grease
and said, "This nickel's for to pay for these."
Well she looked at the nickel and she looked at me
and she said, "This nickel's no good to me.
There's a hole in the nickel and it's all the way through."
I said, "There's a hole in the doughnut, too."

alternate lyrics (no chorus)

Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie 'em in a knot, can you tie 'em in a bow?
Can you throw 'em o'er your shoulder
like a Continental Soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

Do your tits hang low, do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie 'em in a knot, can you tie 'em in a bow?
Can you make 'em both tingle if you whack 'em with a shingle?
Do your tits hang low?

Do your balls hang low, do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie 'em in a knot, can you tie 'em in a bow?
Can you make yourself stammer if you smack 'em with a hammer?
Do your balls hang low?
 
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