(Yes, it is Mashville and not Nashville. That’s how it appears in the cartoon where the words come from.)
In his 1975 album Grasshopper, Mr. Carradine changes the original words by Gilbert Shelton There were chickens in the pasture for There were chickens in the cabbages, a few other words, adds so...
I was born on a chicken farm
Down in Mashville, Tennessee
There was nobody there
But a sky full of air
Seventeen million chickens and me
Then one fine day I said, hey
I think I'll drop a little LSD
Well, it blew my mind
And I got so kind
And I set my chickens free
There were chickens in the Cadillac
Chickens in the corn
Chickens in the cauliflower
Chickens in the barn
Chickens driving Cadillacs to Washington D.C
Since I set my chickens free
All countries
Full of chickens
Ever since I dropp'd that LSD
The Chicken Song (2009 Live Version) was written by Gilbert Shelton.
David-carradine released The Chicken Song (2009 Live Version) on Fri Jan 01 2010.