Have you ever heard Johnny Cash’s song, “The Chicken in Black”?  It was one of the sillier songs he ever wrote.

The basic premise is Johnny needs a brain transplant, so they give him the brain of a dead bank robber, which makes Johnny start robbing everyone.  Then he requests his old brain back, but it’s been implanted in a chicken who is now a famous country star and has his own TV show, “The Johnny Chicken Show”.

Pretty standard premise.  And apparently the song was doing pretty well, until Waylon Jennings saw Johnny’s yellow spandex in the video and made fun of him.  Johnny then called his label and told them to stop promoting the song.

(You can check out that whole back story, here.)

Well, this song was released 40 years ago and has laid somewhat dormant till then.  That is until some youngin’ discovered it on TikTok, and now everyone is loving this weird old song all over again.

(And if you want to do a deeper dive, here’s a list of other silly songs by the Man in Black.)