Does "Chicken Fat" bring back horrible memories of gym class?

[Red State Rebel]

Enjoy a trip down memory lane!


http://www.daveross.com/songs/chickenfat.mp3

For those of you not so enlightened, this was the record du jour for gym class torture. From what I've read, after President Kennedy started the Physical Fitness program, he asked Robert Preston (The Music Man) to do an exercise song. Those who know it intimately will never forget it....jogging in place while someone is singing "Go you chicken fat go away!" is bound to scar anyone for life.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Give that chicken fat back to the chicken.

:cry:

[eyesroll]

2. Ugh ugh ugh.

Mr. Toman was a sadist. With a whistle and striped socks.

[Red State Rebel]

4. Ours was a sadistic Mistress named Mrs. Howell

God help her soul if she has one!

[RetroLounge]

3. OMG! Thanks for the nasty flashback.

Oak School, Niles Illinois, 1967-1973, Mr. Klocker as my Gym Teacher.

This song is ingrained in my psyche forever...

thanks...

RL

[LoZoccolo]

5. I was in elementary school 1979-1986 and they still had this.

It wasn't the worst thing in gym class though. That might be pull-ups or rope climbing. I didn't have much upper-body strength.

[babylonsister]

6. I don't remember this song from my youth, but

it sure woke me the hell up! :-)

[trotsky]

7. Miss Lightfoot (Yes, that was her name.)

Oh she was pure evil. She hated me because I was the most uncoordinated kid in the class. So usually I got singled out whenever I did something wrong. Or even if I didn't, she just liked to pick on me. She was so mean.

Yes, we did "Chicken Fat" at least a couple of times a week. *shudder*

[bleedingheart]

8. there is something is really bizarre/funny about that...

but then again I never heard this in gym...I will check with my sister who is older...

I started kindergarten in '74...so perhaps it was retired by then..

[flamingyouth]

9. Just thinking about gym class

Brings back horrible memories of gym class. :scared:

[Mad_Dem_X]

10. OMG - Flashback! Flashback!

:scared:

[Beer Snob-50]

11. mid sixties gym class.....

i was happy to hear that song because that meant we weren't going to climb the ropes (i could not do that for the life of me)

[Red State Rebel]

12. I always hated seeing them drag out the record player....

you just knew that Chicken Fat wasn't far behind!

[6000eliot]

13. I can't believe you reminded me of that song!

I haven't thought about it for years. Now can we all join together for a chorus of "Gray Squirrel, Gray Squirrel?"

[baba]

14. First and second grade, 1976-1977.

I remember being really embarrassed when the gym teacher made us dance to this song. He made us flap our arms up and down like chickens, too!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. "Push-ups every morning, ten times, starting low!"

Oh yes, in sixth grade.

The other line I remember is

"Give that chicken fat back to the chickens and don't be chicken again."