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Did You Feed My Cow?

Call-and Response Story

As Adapted by Mike Lockett, The Normal Storyteller

                                     

 

Did you feed my Cow?

          Yeah, Man!                   Or Yes, Ma'am!

Will you tell me how?

          Yeah, Man

Oh, what did you give her?

          Corn and Hay!

What did you give her?

          Corn and Hay!

Did you milk her good?

          Yeah, Man

Did you do like you should?

          Yeah, Man

Oh, how did you milk her?

          Swish, Swish, Swish

How did you milk her?

          Swish, Swish, Swish

Did my cow have a calf?

          Yeah, Man

Did you cheer and laugh?

          Yeah, Man

Oh, what does the calf say?

          Baa, Baa, Baa

What does the calf say say?

          Baa, Baa, Baa

Does she run and play?

          Yeah, Man

Did she play all day?

          Yeah, Man

Well run on home now.

          Bye, bye, bye

Run on home now.

          Bye, bye, bye

Adapted from Did you Feed My Cow? by Margaret Taylor (Thomas Y Crowell, New York) published in A Second Storyteller's Choice by Eileen Colwell, 1967.  Dr. Mike Lockett (2005) altered the entire second half of the poem.  In the original version, the cow dies and buzzards pick at the bones.  Lockett prefers a less violent version with today's children.