Thursday, November 06, 2003
Rubber Chicken
Words: Henry, Randy, Jonas, & Big Jon
Music: Henry
Henry doesn't explain this song on his website. I think it's because there's really nothing to explain. We were at some waterfall state park near Ithaca, sitting around being idiots, when suddenly we started talking about a rubber chicken who was running for mayor (or something like that). We were all just throwing out ideas about things this rubber chicken would do (get elected mayor, run a 4 minute mile, go to law school, etc.) and the song pretty much wrote itself. It quickly became our #1 hit single. One day, we were sitting around playing spades and watching Old School Wednesday on Rap City (or maybe it was Legends of the Hidden Temple) when there was a knock on the door and in walk two girls saying, "Can you guys play Rubber Chicken for us?"
Lyrics:
Rubber Chicken was born in 1963
Elected Mayor in '82, and then he set all his chicken friends free
Rubber Chicken, he's educated; spent several years in college
He's a patron of the arts; a real lover of all kinds of knowledge
Chorus:
Rubber Chicken - Beat you in the head with it
Rubber Chicken - Beat you 'till you're dead with it
Rubber Chicken - Don't expect to get fed with it
Rubber Chicken
Rubber Chicken is a man's best friend
Rubber Chicken always wins in the end
Got his pilot's license, when he was only four
Sailed across the Atlantic, and then he opened up some kind of store
Rubber Chicken, he wears a three piece suit; he's got all kinds of money
He don't mind it if you laugh at him, because a chicken in a suit looks kind of funny
Chorus
Bridge:
Well he don't mind if you like to eat lots of nuggets
Or if you're a die-hard poultry lover
He takes no affiliation with his fleshy counterparts
Because a Rubber Chicken, we'll he's made out of rubber
I'm the greatest MC in the world!
Rubber Chicken, he has a law degree, and a very successful practice
One time we tried to run from him, but he and his chicken friends tracked us
Rubber Chicken, he's in good-ass shape; he runs a four minute mile
Was called as an expert witness, in that all fucked-up O.J. Simpson trial
Chorus
Extras:
1. Which trial gets mentioned in the last verse is entirely up to Jonas. It was originally OJ Simpson, later (on the version you can download) the Clara Harris trial, and currently the Kobe Bryant trial.
2. "I'm the greatest MC in the world" is lifted from De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate. It's one of the few instances where you can see our broad range of influences (another is the Blondiesque "man from Mars, eatin' cars"-style rap about Bob Hope in Papal Visit).
3. The lyric "opened up some kind of store" was intended to be temporary until we could think of a sufficiently funny 'kind of store.' We decided it was funniest the way it was.
4. Notice that after getting his pilot's license, he sails across the Atlantic. We're idiots. That wasn't on purpose.
5. Lots of our songs have recurring themes. Chicken nuggets pop up more than anything else (Nugget night, Phan and the Chicken Man, Shitty (which was after a nugget night), and Rubber Chicken, to name a few). Mostly, we just really enjoy writing songs about food coming to life, or animals being people.
6. After the song went Platinum in Ithaca, Daisy got us a real live rubber chicken. It was hollow and had it's mouth open, so we used to fill it with malt liquor and let it regurgitate it back to us. It was great - only slightly less fun than drinking rum out of the decapitated Choco-Bear that Krotch brought us.
Words: Henry, Randy, Jonas, & Big Jon
Music: Henry
Henry doesn't explain this song on his website. I think it's because there's really nothing to explain. We were at some waterfall state park near Ithaca, sitting around being idiots, when suddenly we started talking about a rubber chicken who was running for mayor (or something like that). We were all just throwing out ideas about things this rubber chicken would do (get elected mayor, run a 4 minute mile, go to law school, etc.) and the song pretty much wrote itself. It quickly became our #1 hit single. One day, we were sitting around playing spades and watching Old School Wednesday on Rap City (or maybe it was Legends of the Hidden Temple) when there was a knock on the door and in walk two girls saying, "Can you guys play Rubber Chicken for us?"
Lyrics:
Rubber Chicken was born in 1963
Elected Mayor in '82, and then he set all his chicken friends free
Rubber Chicken, he's educated; spent several years in college
He's a patron of the arts; a real lover of all kinds of knowledge
Chorus:
Rubber Chicken - Beat you in the head with it
Rubber Chicken - Beat you 'till you're dead with it
Rubber Chicken - Don't expect to get fed with it
Rubber Chicken
Rubber Chicken is a man's best friend
Rubber Chicken always wins in the end
Got his pilot's license, when he was only four
Sailed across the Atlantic, and then he opened up some kind of store
Rubber Chicken, he wears a three piece suit; he's got all kinds of money
He don't mind it if you laugh at him, because a chicken in a suit looks kind of funny
Chorus
Bridge:
Well he don't mind if you like to eat lots of nuggets
Or if you're a die-hard poultry lover
He takes no affiliation with his fleshy counterparts
Because a Rubber Chicken, we'll he's made out of rubber
I'm the greatest MC in the world!
Rubber Chicken, he has a law degree, and a very successful practice
One time we tried to run from him, but he and his chicken friends tracked us
Rubber Chicken, he's in good-ass shape; he runs a four minute mile
Was called as an expert witness, in that all fucked-up O.J. Simpson trial
Chorus
Extras:
1. Which trial gets mentioned in the last verse is entirely up to Jonas. It was originally OJ Simpson, later (on the version you can download) the Clara Harris trial, and currently the Kobe Bryant trial.
2. "I'm the greatest MC in the world" is lifted from De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate. It's one of the few instances where you can see our broad range of influences (another is the Blondiesque "man from Mars, eatin' cars"-style rap about Bob Hope in Papal Visit).
3. The lyric "opened up some kind of store" was intended to be temporary until we could think of a sufficiently funny 'kind of store.' We decided it was funniest the way it was.
4. Notice that after getting his pilot's license, he sails across the Atlantic. We're idiots. That wasn't on purpose.
5. Lots of our songs have recurring themes. Chicken nuggets pop up more than anything else (Nugget night, Phan and the Chicken Man, Shitty (which was after a nugget night), and Rubber Chicken, to name a few). Mostly, we just really enjoy writing songs about food coming to life, or animals being people.
6. After the song went Platinum in Ithaca, Daisy got us a real live rubber chicken. It was hollow and had it's mouth open, so we used to fill it with malt liquor and let it regurgitate it back to us. It was great - only slightly less fun than drinking rum out of the decapitated Choco-Bear that Krotch brought us.
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