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Hope the Gender Variant Chicken

from Broken Umbrella EP by Bicycle Face

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about

I visited Santa Cruz, California a few years ago, and stayed with my friend Mars, her daughter Autumn, and their friend and co-parent, Briar. Autumn loves her chickens very much, and wanted to introduce me to all of them. She told me that Hope was a very special chicken because Hope had a comb and spurs like a rooster but laid eggs like a chicken. When I talked to my other friends who had chickens, they told me that they sometimes had chickens that acted like roosters too. "Gender variant" is a big word that means that someone (or some chicken) doesn't match grown-ups idea of what a man or a woman should be. Do you know people who look like boys but play with girl things, or people who look like girls but dress like boys? These people may be transgender, or they might just have interests that are different than most of the people you know!

lyrics

Well if you visit Santa Cruz you'll find Autumn working hard
Taking care of chickens in her own backyard
There's....

But the most special one of all I have yet to mention
Their name is Hope, a gender variant chicken
Hope took the parts of gender that they liked best
And added some of this and that and took out all the rest

They've got a comb like a rooster
And some masculine spurs
But they lay eggs like a chicken
And nest like a girl
Some people think that gender's only blue or pink
But even barnyard creatures think that idea really stinks

You can wear a dress and play machines all day
Or wear Carhartts and boots
While ya do ballet
And if people don't like the clothes that you're pickin
Just tell em bout Hope, the gender variant chicken!

They've got a comb like a rooster
And some masculine spurs
But they lay eggs like a chicken
And nest like a girl
Hope took the parts of gender
That they liked best
And added some of this and that and took out all the rest
HEY!!

credits

from Broken Umbrella EP, track released October 8, 2014
By Lichen with help from Winter Goose.
Uke by Evan
Special thanks to Autumn, Mars, and Briar!

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Bicycle Face Seattle, Washington

Back when bicycles were first invented, doctors told women that if they raced on their bicycles, their face would get stuck in a strained-looking, bulgy-eyed mess. Thankfully, we have disproved this theory, and our bicycle faces are all smiles!
Bicycle Face is a musical project by Lichen & Evan. We believe that it's important to teach history so that children know that they can change the future!
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