Brown Chicken Brown Cow Explained

Brown Chicken Brown Cow
Type:single
Artist:Trace Adkins
Album:Cowboy's Back in Town
Released:January 15, 2011
Genre:Country
Length:3:25
Label:Show Dog-Universal Music
Producer:Michael Knox
Prev Title:This Ain't No Love Song
Prev Year:2010
Next Title:Just Fishin'
Next Year:2011

"Brown Chicken Brown Cow" is a song recorded by American country music artist Trace Adkins. It was released in January 2011 as the third and final single from the album Cowboy's Back in Town. The song reached #39 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart[1] before, amid controversy about the song's premise, the song was pulled from country radio after two months and replaced with the much more family-friendly track "Just Fishin'."

The song was written by Kenny Beard, Casey Beathard and Rivers Rutherford. Adkins later publicly apologized for the song being released, blaming the songwriters for it.[2] The Boot later clarified that Adkins' apology was not for releasing for the song, but rather for asking more "conservative" stations to play it.[3]

Content

The song uses an innuendo on "bow chicka bow wow" (an onomatopoeia for music in pornography) and describes the exploits of Bobby Joe and Betty, married farmers who use the loft in their barn to have sex where no one can watch them except the livestock.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Joel Whitburn . Record Research . 2013 . 16.
  2. Web site: Trace Adkins Apologizes for "Brown Chicken Brown Cow". https://web.archive.org/web/20161114084100/http://www.cmt.com/news/1659374/trace-adkins-apologizes-for-brown-chicken-brown-cow/. dead. November 14, 2016.
  3. Web site: Trace Adkins Not Sorry for 'Brown Chicken Brown Cow' . The Boot .