Little Red Rooster

There was a raucous noise out in front of the house early this morning, and when I went out to investigate, my suspicions of a young rooster in our flock were confirmed. Paul Bunyan is pushing up daisies, a new rooster is taking his place, and so the circle continues on. He’s got quite a job to do filling that big old rooster’s shoes, but he seems scrappy and up to the task.

He reminded me of an old blues standard, so I named him (very descriptively) Little Red Rooster. Hopefully he will behave much better than the rooster in the song.

Here’s the original version by Willie Dixon.

And The Grateful Dead’s take on the song.

Enjoy!