Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Chicken Train (Live 1976)
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- Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Chicken Train (Live 1976)
"Chicken Train
runnin all day
Chicken Train
runnin all day
Chicken Train
runnin all day
Can't get on
Can't get off
Chicken Train take the chickens away
Lazer beam
in my dream
Lazer beam
in my dream
Lazer beam
in my dream
lazer beam like a sawed off dream" - Hudba
If this song doesn't make you smile, you're dead.
I’m actually dying with laughter as I speak!!!
I introduced this song to a friend back in 1979 when I worked at a chemical plant, our job consisted of filling 55 gallon drums with various chemicals. One day my friend started drumming the tune of "Chicken Train" on empty 55 gal. drums while belting out the lyrics, by the end of the shift everyone in the department knew the song. To break the monotony of a work day, once in a while he would start drumming the tune and everyone would join in. Good times, good memories. Thank you mangeldeth74.
AWESOME... I can do that to my co workers and others too! indeed, good times!
How about them gamecocks!!!
@@ronanderson6816 they suck
Sounds like good memories
Thanks for that story! very wholesome
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils were a ton of fun and absolutely unapologetic about who and what they were. Modern musicians, take note - being true to yourself and the music counts.
So well said jerry, very genuine!
I'm from Missouri so these guys hold a special place in my Heart.
Agree! Heard this song every morning in my brother's 64 Ford, going to school.....hoping I am going to be shopping at our local Pricecutter and hear you humming the tune the next aisle over!!!
@@ozarksnipehunter3403 I think my favorite OMDD song is Sheriff's Coming. Larry Lee wrote it and did the vocals
@@ozarksnipehunter3403 I am closer to Kansas City, but thank you
Was so high when first hearing this song, just can' forget it, after all these years.
I want this played at my funeral, or I ain't going 🥰☮️
🤣🤣
😎
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂
🐓🐔🐓🐔🐓🐔🐣🐣🐤🐤🐥🐥🐓🐔🐓🐣🐣🐤🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Had some amazing musical instruments,With probably the best harmonica player ever, They produced many greats like this one, Chicken Train, Spaceship Orion, If you want to get to heaven, Country Girl,And many more, Very Underrated band, But definitely one of my favorites!
I would add Magic Dick from the J. GEILS BAND in that greatest harmonica discussion.
My Dad used to sing this all the time. Never knew it was real until now. I thought he'd made it up. 😂
Bro same
so my grandchildren say
this song is example 923 of random shit ive sung or said where the mrs thinks im just gaslighting her when i tell her its real only to pull up evidence
My Dad's favorite song, he'd play the Hermonica to it, just lost my Dad this month. Had to come listen to it for him ❤
Had to reply to you, your Dad was so ahead of himself, my Dad was the exact same way. They both loved their music!! Right
Featuring an "Ozark Mountain Mouth Bow" instrument. Awesome talent: The Stars Fell on the Ozarks, Too!
I was 16 when I first heard this song on an 8 track tape deck while driving cross country in a V-8 station wagon filled to the brim with all our belongings, hitting the repeat button over and over!
John: *Puff* "I want to do a song about chickens."
*Pass*
Larry: "And lasers!"
The first time I heard this was on an 8 track my sister had in her '74 Ford Pinto. I was 13 and we would cruise all up and down the streets of our town with the windows down and "Chicken Train" blasting! We laughed our butts off. One of the best memories from the mid '70's. I later bought the vinyl album and I can honestly tell you that this was one rare album that I loved every song on it! These guys never got the recognition they deserved. Still have the album to this day and it never fails to put me in a happy place when I hear it
I'm 65 and I still have the album , fantastic 🎵.
@@mattdonna9677 I'm 75 {British} and have 3 of their album's. {Not one CD}.
The Ozark mountain mouth bow sounds beautiful 😍
I had a uncle back in the 70s i played this song to him he love this song after that he play this all the time he was 70 yrs old its pretty kool when i can get that generation in to rock music .
This is rock?
Nah...
@@beeragainsthumanity1420 hey skol !
I’m a Dead head and love this song, only wish it was 21 minutes long! 😎✌️
I’ve just come across this in 2023 and I wish I could go back to that time.
I was just thinking .. If I could go back to 1976 and Start over again at about age 16 , knowing what I know now.
@@mikeskidmore6754 I have similar thoughts too… I’d make homemade toys with a simple circuit board and sell them in my small shop, or do something in tech.
I remember watching this on the OGWT transmission in the UK and recording it with a mic on my cassette tape pointing at the tv speaker. Stayed with me my whole life!
saw these guys in 1976---brought back alot of memories from high school they never got the recognition they deserved....awesome band
They were extremely underrated and under appreciated they really deserved more recognition
Haha! Me too! KC?
Yay!!!
Springfield,Missouri music!
🎸🎶🎵🍺😎😁🇺🇸
One of my dads favourite groups, Rip dad
R I P
R.I.P. Steve Cash-you were truly one of a kind and I was honored to see you live many times over the last 43 years or so.
Very saddened he is gone.
did not know he passed-- what a cool, very nice guy--- his harmonica was the best--- will see him in Heaven( if you wanna get to heaven, you gotta raise a little hell)
These guys came through Austin many times long ago what a great Show Every Time....ol couple way down in TX
So sorry to hear about Steve Cash. He lives on forever, and kudos on that harmonica on If You Wanna get to Heaven. That was what repeat buttons were created for! You rock, Mr Cash!
These men's music was light-hearted and FUN. Can't get on & can't get off! AND the Ozark mouth harp is unique. I have only seen and heard it with these men in this song.
Not to many people play any of these instruments any more nice to hear Southern songs I grew up with are still out there. I remember times when we all got together with our instruments and played side by side . Not here to much up north though. Sure miss those times
I love chickens and have always loved this goofy song. Always puts a smile on my face.
This folks is true Americana!!
What's not to love - chickens, trains and lasers - classic combination !
You betcha* runnin all day....
Ha, lazer fried chicken.
Buzz Saw KLC - Kentucky LAZERED Chicken!
Why there are 236 "thumbs down" reacts is why we will never have national unity.
This is absolutely ridiculous! Amazing talent!
this band is very under rated and a lot of people have never heard of them but for the people who have heard of them and know there music they are the best that is for sure
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Amen! Hailin from WVa and my ma raised me up on this and so many more!
I am 69+ and am feeling very Nostalgic this morning.. couldn't leave out the Daredevils...lmao
Terri Mrazek They sure have a great sound - such fun music!
At the tender age of 13 my Arkansas Mom introduced me to the Ozark Sound. And these guys had that sound!!
My old crew and I would listen to this over and over again.Like I am tonight.:-)
always loved the old gray whistle stop venue to new artists,
How did I never hear of these guys - love their music!! :)
This was my JAM when I was like 8 years old! Still love this song today.
Perhaps the finest chicken song ever!
Just. Heard it for the. First time. Love it. 😁
Oh my God. I watched this video at work and just about fell out of my chair laughing when they all started clucking. Love OMD.
OMD? Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark?
2728muzikmann ozark mountain daredevils
Saw these boys in ‘75 in Jacksonville, FL. They had a folk singer named Joan Armatrading open up for them. OMD crowds were usually pretty rowdy groups and they were having no part of some folk singer. They literally booed her off the stage and she ran off in tears before the crowd got what they came for.
I have this on vinyl handed down from my dad. Best album cover ever and one of my favorite songs. Sometimes my son and I will start bawking like chickens and singing this in public just for the amusing reactions we get from people! Lol
A true tribute of hippies love. 'Scarecrowe01'
I wouldn't missed them for the world,much love in keepin' em alive .becomes tradition, don't it.
Wore out the album. So, now, I have the CD.
@@greggrandt3190 AMEN!
My daughter now owns her father's vinyl too !🎵 omdd record copped a flogging when our kids were small.👣 This song feels very significant in our lives. Good to hear you have your father's album as well🎶🎵
One of my favorite records! Loved when this came on in the car with mom when I was little🥰
Still brings a smile to my face.
Love this song , as I do the rest of them. This LP is fabulous end to end. Every cut is a gem. Thanks for the memories of
1974.
I moved the the Ozarks last year, and recall listening to these guys in the 70s, but never heard this strange but catchy song before! Love it❣️🥳😎
I love this song, first heard it in the 70's and still going strong today I have used it for many years working with adults with special needs and we have a dance that goes with it.
My band in Virginia had to learn this song back in the '70's for a "BLUE WATER VAN CLUB" event. Seems this was their theme song. When we started this song, everyone of the Van Club members jumped up, got in a long "Congo line" of about 75 people, and they all danced right out the side door of the building, into the parking lot and back inside thru another door while still in a line! One of the highlights of my music performing career Lol! Good times indeed!
It occurred to me one fine day, while I was working, and this song was running thru my head, that chicken train rhymes with trippin brain... Trippin brain, runnin all day, can't get on, can't get off, trippin brain, take my thoughts away...
Gotta admit that I had this album back in the 1970's, and also, this was one of my favorite tunes. Don't really know why, it just was.
Just stopped by this vid because the riff popped into my head - a song I hadn’t heard in YEARS!!! GREAT song!!!
No need for a reason. :-) It's just the way it is.
The entire album is excellent..not one bad song on it! I still have original vinyl version I bought in 1974 in St Louis MO. I've just now learned the "mouth harp" instrument is not a "Jews harp"! 😜👍
@randsterama That's right. The Who has video of their song "Join Together in the Band"...it starts off with Jew's harp .... Ozark Mtn Daredevils "Chicken Train" has different instrument - I think it's called Ozark bow harp - can be seen played in Chicken Train song video.
My grand pappy would sing this song to me as a kid
I love the song but once it gets in my head it wont Leave!!♡♡
I got their album in the early 70's in my early days of learning harmonica, great mentor for me and a great band , Still have that Vinyl LP :)
Always a fine time listening to these cool guys😎
ALL THE WAY FROM BRASIL - That's it with (S).
These guys and their tunes are simply amazing. "...thank you Lord, you made it (really) right..."
QUE SAUDADES DESSES CARAS.
One of my Dad's favorite's. RIP Dad :) :)
Seen these folks at the ozark music festival 3day boogie with wolfman jack as the mc.in '74. Sedalia,Mo. Chuckin up...
I loved every song, note, sentiment, and vibe.
Grew up on OMD, BOA, Atlanta Rhythm Section, and Meat Loaf. You just can't find music like this today, these kids just don't know what they missed when these songs were new. I was 5 in '76 and would go around the house singing this song.
Love OMD now my son knows and loves them.
This song is too fun and so much talent!
I believe this is off their first album. It was released in the early 70s but I never heard them until 1979. I lived in rural northern Maine and, for whatever reason, their debut album suddenly became popular among my friends and peers in my area. Soon as I heard If You Wanna Get To Heaven I loved it enough to buy the LP myself. Got my copy home, slapped it on the ol' turntable, and was grooving to the first few tracks. Then Chicken Train started and my groove became ruckus laughter! Holy shit it was hilarious! I kept imagining a group of bucktoothed hillbillies, one, of course, named Huckleberry, wearing denim overalls and straw hats hopping around singing it! 😂😂😂.
It's still funny af today! After hearing that track I kind of just slipped the disc back in the sleeve and, uhhh, stored it somewhere I was fairly certain I'd never find it again! 😂😂
I can't believe the guys kept straight faces throughout this song. It would make a great jam session. Also, the British audience wouldn't have a do'gone clue of the Ozark's sense of humour and brilliant musicianship.
this music originally came from the British Isles, immigrants from Scotland and Ireland settled in the Appalachians and Ozarks
Her: He's probably out there cheeting on me
Me and the boys:
Fuck yes😂
When disco came out in the 70s, I left rock. I went to blue grass and outlaw country. This song still does it for me.
Where were you in 72 🌄🦌. Thank God for the Ozarks Missouri Arkansas 🌄🐴🏁
HA! I've never heard this before! Totally kicks ass! Awesome!
This band is amazing!
I've loved this song (and Band) since years ago and still do. Love to them all
Awesome
This is my best song of my lifetime you must dance to this music
Profound,; a truly sophisticated masterpiece and accomplished piece of work, in an in-bred sort of way.
All kiddin' aside, these guys were a great band. Their sound was very similar, if not identical, to the pre-1976 Eagles and the Prairie League; these guys are much more authentic, though. The Eagles, with all due respect (I liked them, as well), wanted to convey the country-rock genre; the Daedevils were the real deal. Lots of great stuff off of the Grey Whistle Test.
Love this song...have great memories of road tripping with my big sis, our young children, and my 3 dogs...train keep on runnin
Ahhh Chicken Train..sang this walking up and down those gravel roads in Poplar Bluff at the top of my lungs..Bock Bock....🤣🤣🤣
This songs brings back lots of beautiful memories of people that have come and gone in my life....we were all together once and will be again one day...
My dad had this on vinyl and would play this song for me all the time back in 1980. Arkansas born and bread.
I've tried to find this song for soooo long! I thought it was done by Goose Creek Symphony. Thank you to whoever posted the video!!! brings back great memories!
In 1983, they came to the University of Kentucky Student Ballroom. Expecting to sell 3500 tickets only 350 sold, give or take a few. About 250 of those were fans of them but many came at my urging because all my friends and bandmates(two bands, one hardcore southern rock Stryker, and another country rock Muddy Creek which were both very popular around here)knowing that Ozark is why i played harmonica the way i do and that i considered Steve Cash a god lol. So thinking we were going to a sold out show i armed myself with my bandeleros with 16 harps planning on staying in the back and playing along unnoticed. It did not turn out that way. To make a long story short i was singled out and humiliated by the band. That did not sit well with a few of my really, really redneck friends. A few of them jumped onstage and began to tell them just what they thought of what just happened. They got an explanation of why, even though not many came to the show, pointing out that the vast majority of the audience was there because i asked them to come the previous weekend at the bar we were playing at(the concert was on a wednsday night). When things calmed down they asked me to come up on stage. And Steve Cash asked me what i liked and i said "everything" and then said show me what you got. I started with Chicken Train. And after that they tokd everyone "lock the doors!, we are going to party!!" That was a little after 8pm they did not finish playing until after 1am. And then the next 4 months was the adventure of a lifetime. At that first ahow with them though Steve told me that i will play the harp and that freed him up to play other instruments. Those guys could play anything you put in their hands. And though i did get to play with other big acts on the road the expierience with the Daredevils was the most fun i have ever had playing music. If you want to get to heaven, you got to raise a little hell!!
When I was I college a buddy of mine had made a mix tape (remember those?🤣), and this was one of the songs he'd put on there. Still to this day, I remember him playing it the first time, and telling me "check this next tune out". I looked at him bewildered, and asked why, he said "because I think it's funny." 😂
So struck in my head lol ❤
This was fun to see. I had all but forgotten this song. haha
This song slayed me at the time - even better 'live'!
blastin' in my car in the late 70's
This is our Ozarks national athuem
+Wade Terrell Why am I not surprised!
Wade Terrell...and we're mighty damn proud of it, aren't we?!?
That is right thankyou
Damn straight brother!!
Wasn't this a protest about , Capitalism, commercialism, and modernism. But I sure love this song. This one, and the last lonely Eagle. The beautiful song you should listen to it let me know how you like it
Spending my COVID quarantine making a new version of this with homemade instruments.
Great!!! Can you upload one of them ?
I’d like to see too! Such a fun song!
Where is it? Can we hear it?
Yes
@@BF1-P
Lp
This is SO EFFING GOOD!!!
Such good memories
Danny Abbott
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My father was in the army with Steve when we were stationed in Goppingen germany, good famaily freind. I remenber him playing guitar right in our liveingroom. then after my dad retired, I think Steve was RIFTED to many captains in the army at the time. anyway got to see them live in Laramie Wy. I got up as close to the stage as I could. He recomized me. Had a roadie bring me a back stage pass, got to meet everone, reminise with Steve. good times
One of my favorite Southern Rock bands of the 70s . Also check out " If you want to get to heaven and Oooh Jackie Blue .
GREAT VID.....I LIKE THE VERSION OF THIS SONG ON THEIR ITS ALIVE ALBUM....SEEN THEM SEVERAL TIMES IN MANITOBA...ALWAYS A GREAT SHOW!
I've loved this song since I was a little child in the 70s in Missouri. I do get some weird looks sometimes when I play this, though. Oh well, their loss.
ETA: the more I listen, the more nuances and subtle details I hear. Brilliance.
Saw these guys @ MSU 1973 I was 17. Went to Parkview and Central high. Dad went to BBC. I Was kind of a hippy sports guy. Dad didnt approve. Moved out on my 17th BD. Great times and the music at the time was the best. OMD!
Seen these guys at the Great American music hall in San Francisco in 1973 . In a up front and close setting . The Ozark fellas were in a zone , and responded well to our group of 16 dancing in the isles that night, Back in the day memories .
My first concert.
I was 8 and they played in Kingsport Tn. at FunFest.
A CLASSIC!
I was one of those cats from the 70s that found OMD when the first LP came out. Played the disc in between Little Feat and The Neville Brothers....Love the band and thanks for uploading this video...I have never seen it before and you made me smile...Black Oak Arkansas, OMD, Levon Helm, etc...
Yeah I saw them at the Warehouse in New Orleans with Pure Prairie League...great band live and on record.
CLASSIC DAREDEVILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fk yeah very unique in concert I couldn't imagine live good jam
Wow this song my sister and I use to listen on a record that my Dad had and it was the wildest song ever I sure do miss him!!!!!!
geniuses hard at work ... I am reading the book , its pretty cool
Gotta get your head right before listening to this song - lol
Beautiful song
Was strung out looking for a place to crash out before going to jail ....this song along with a brother R.I.P. and another friend forever cemented this in my memory. Miss and love ya brother
If we were down, my best friend & I would play Chicken Train on the cassette player in her Javelin.
Wow, happy music for sure!