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The Chicken by Bo Burnham

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Intro:

E   F#m   C#m   G#m 
                    
E   F#m   C#m   G#m 
                    
A   B   C#m   B   G#7   A   Am7



Verse 1:
     E            F#m          C#m       G#m     
The chicken wakes up like she does every morning
E         F#m           C#m        G#m  
  To the sounds of her husband's screams
 E         F#m         C#m          G#m    
Sat?in the dark on the eggs she is warming
E      F#m        C#m       G#m       
  She closes her eyes and dreams of
 A                     B   
Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist
C#m   B   G#7   A  
Anything  but this
A                       B       
I mean, she likes her life as a mother and wife
    C#m      B   G#7   A 
But is that all  she  is?
      A             Am7   
She stares out the window

Verse 2:
     E         F#m          C#m      G#m             
The very next morning, the chicken decides to
 E        F#m           C#m      G#m  
Mak? her escape, g t a taste of freedom
     E            F#m           C#m            G#m
She runs out the coop that her life’s been confined to
 E       F#m                  C#m    G#m      
Suddenly sees the thing she's only dreamed of
 A                      B      
Just up ahead, gophers run through a meadow
C#m      B     G#7    A
  Deer graze, birds sing
     A                         B      
Her future is waiting, right there for the taking
C#m         B   G#7   A  
  There's just  one thing

Bridge:
     A            Am7              E     
The chicken must first cross the road
   G#7    C#m   
The      road
Verse 3:
           B                  A 
A sea of trees and green and moss
               F#m        E      G#7   C#m       
Waiting just across the road, the      road
   B                 A                    Am7  
A life of brighter days, a width of road away
     E        F#m           C#m       G#m
The road is gigantic, the chicken is little
 E          F#m            C#m          G#m
She moves ahead left-right-left, right-left-right
 E        F#m         C#m          G#m
All of a sudden, she stops in the middle
  E         F#m       C#m     G#m 
Frozen in place by a pair of headlights
      A                    B
It’s anyone's guess what then happened next
   C#m       B   G#7   A 
But  most think she died
     A                      B 
But I think we ought to believe that she got to
C#m   B   G#7   A
  The ot  her  side
     A            Am7
So that's why she did it

Outro:
     E 
Goodbye