Hickety pickety, my black hen lays eggs for gentlemen who call every day to see them. A cheerful, rhythmic rhyme about a very productive hen, easy to chant from the first hearing.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Hickety, pickety, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen;
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my black hen doth lay.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition