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: Billy Gibbons wrote the lyrics using "sly Texanisms" to hint at the establishment without naming it directly, using lines like "they got a lot of nice girls".
The song is a sly tribute to the , a notorious brothel located just outside La Grange, Texas, that operated from 1905 until 1973. ZZ Top - La Grange (Easy Rider)
: Bassist Dusty Hill recalled that visiting the Chicken Ranch was considered a "requirement toward manhood" for young Texas men at the time. : Billy Gibbons wrote the lyrics using "sly