Chicken Charlie

 Do you know “Chicken Charlie”? He lives a

little way up the road.

Chicken Charlie

I know a guy – Chicken Charlie’s his name.

He tends his flock and feeds them grain,

He cleans their house and keeps them warm,

And chases the foxes to keep them from harm.

He loves the beauty of their strain so rare,

And has sent their eggs most everywhere.

Now Chicken Charlie has a flock of another kind,

He cares for them, and feeds their mind.

He listens when they need to talk,

And guides them on the path they walk.

When they need him he tries to be there,

And soothes their hurt with his humble prayer.

He made St. Francis his ideal,

To him his beliefs are very real

From St. Francis, he takes the word,

Like him, his flocks he does herd.

Each dawn he awakes again

To care for his flocks of chickens and men.