The Chicken Chords by Bo Burnham

[E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ .
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ .
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_ [F#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ .
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ .
_ _ [G#] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ .
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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[E] The chicken [F#m] wakes up like she [C#m] does every [G#m] _ morning.
_ [E] _ .
to the [F#m] sounds of her [C#m] _ .
husband's [G#m] _ _ _ [E] screams.
At [F#m] the dark on the [C#m] eggs.
She [G#m] is warming.
_ [E] She _ .
[F#m] _ closes [C#m] her eyes [G#m] and dreams _ [A] of.
walking to Memphis.
_ [B] becoming a _ dentist _ [C#m] _ _ [B] Anything _ .
_ _ _ _ [G#] [A] But _ this.
_ I mean she likes her _ life as [B] a mother and wife, but _ [C#m] is [B] that _ all.
_ [G#] She _ [A] _ .
is.
_ _ _ She _ stares _ out [Am] the _ _ window.
_ _ _ The _ _ _ _ [E] _ very [F#m] next morning the [C#m] chicken _ [G#m] decides to [E] make [F#m] her escape.
get a [C#m] taste [G#m] of.
Freedom [E] she runs out [F#m] the coop that [C#m] her life's been [G#m] confined to.
[E] _ Suddenly [F#m] _ sees the thing [C#m] she's only [G#m] _ .
dreamed [A] of just up ahead.
_ [B] Gophers run through a _ meadow.
[C#m] _ _ [B] dear _ _ grace _ [G#] _ _ [A] birds sing.
_ Her future is _ [F#m].
waiting [B] right there for the taking.
_ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ there's just.
_ _ [G#] One [A] _ thing _ the _ _ _ _ _ chicken.
_ _ _ Must [Am] _ _ .
first _ _ cross _ _ _ _ [E] the _ _ _ road.
_ _ _ _ [G#] The _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
[C#m] road.
Sea of [B] trees and green [A] and moss _ waiting just [F#m] across [E] the _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ road the.
_ _ road.
_ _ [C#m] _ .
A _ [B] life of brighter [A] _ .
days.
_ A width of road [Em] away.
_ _ _ [A] _ .
The _ [E] _ road is [F#m] _ .
gigantic.
The [C#m] _ chicken [G#m] is _ little.
_ _ [E] She moves _ .
[F#m] ahead.
left right [C#m] left.
[G#m] right _ left right.
_ [E] All of [F#m] a [C#m] sudden She's gone.
She stops in [G#m] the _ middle.
_ [E] _ Frozen in [F#m] place.
by [C#m] a pair _ .
[G#m] of _ headlights.
[A] It's _ anyone's guess what.
_ [B] Then happened next.
But _ [C#m] _ _ .
_ [B] most think _ _ _ .
[G#] she [A] _ _ died _ _ .
_ _ But I think [F#m] we ought to.
_ [B] Believe that she got to.
[C#m] _ _ _ _ .
the [C#] _ _ _ [G#] other _ _ .
[A] _ side.
The other side _ _ _ _ _ .
So _ that's _ why _ _ she [Am] _ _ did.
_ _ it _ _ _ _ .
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