Prized - Farmer Boys

Nominate the sitting hens

While they cling to a screen wire

Watch them picking with their cut-off bills

Crown he fattest, crown the best

Breeding brooder that contest

In the competition that you give

Let’s play a losing game

Versus the sickness and versus the pain

Versus the butcher again and again

The winning is rated

The bodies were sized

And the winner is … prized

Nominate the perfect egg

And observe its innocence

Like the whiteness of a stillborn child

Crown the fattest, crown the best

Laying layer that contest

In the competition that you give

Let’s play a losing game

Versus the sickness and versus the pain

Versus the butcher again and again

The winning is rated

The bodies were sized

And the winner is … prized

Nominated to die

Prized