As I run across the tater patch, see if my old hen had hatched, she jumped up a-sangin' a teen, sixteen chickens and a tambourine, sixteen chickens and a tambourine.Sing through raw, a-rooted a day, the funniest sight I ever seen, sixteen chickens and a tambourine.A goslin' pen and a gander rod, a humpback mule plowin' up the sod, an old hound dog and a lighter knot, a goslin' quill and a dabblin' pod, sixteen chickens and a tambourine.Sing through raw, a-rooted a day, the funniest sight I ever seen, sixteen chickens and a tambourine.Sing through raw, a-rooted a day, the funniest sight I ever seen, sixteen chickens and a tambourine.Wake up, Jacob, kindle up your light, see a grand mammy and a bullcat fight, a goblin pig and a jumpin' bean, sixteen chickens and a tambourine, sixteen chickens and a tambourine.St. Troy, rooted all day, the funniest sight I've ever seenSixteen chickens and a tambourineA throbbing stub and an off-knit cat, a bobbling shank and a dingo batA cross-eyed goat in a goldberry bush, a rollick-sing-rod and a sniffle-tushSixteen chickens and a tambourineSt. Troy, rooted all day, the funniest sight I've ever seenSixteen chickens and a tambourineHa! Ha!